In business set your standard for credibility, and trust high

In a moment your trust and credibility could be lost in your community.

Set a high standard for your actions to be above reproach, conflict of interest, and to address any appearance of impropriety.

 

May 2022     https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ex-fema-energy-company-officials-plead-guilty-post-hurricane-case-puer-rcna29502       March 2018  Women’s History Month   “….. defendants Ahsha Nateef Tribble - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Region II, Deputy Regional Administrator, assigned to work in Puerto Rico as part of FEMA’s response to Hurricane María; and Donald Keith Ellison - President of Cobra Acquisitions, LLC until June 2019. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison engaged in a bribery conspiracy, honest services fraud scheme, ………….. “

 

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-oklahoman/20220521/281479280027154 "My client has conditionally agreed to plead guilty to a single count of giving some small dollar gifts to a FEMA official as part of a relationship that was both personal and business," Bill Leone, an attorney representing Ellison, told NBC News in an email. "The statute in question makes it an offense to simply give gifts to an official if they are, even in part, motivated by gratitude for an official’s action and even if there is also a personal relationship between them."

 

 

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