Cansler’s Deposition Part Two
2010-06-07 - by
Back at the end of February Secretary Lanier Cansler was deposed and the lawyer doing the deposing asked him under oath what clients he’d represented as a lobbyist (before he was Secretary), and if any of them, back then, had done business with DHHS.
“Let’s see,” Cansler said, “clients I did was – Computer Sciences Corporation did at that time. CCME did at that time. Who else? SAS did at that time – I’m trying to remember who the clients are. It’s been a while. My mind is a blank. I can’t remember who the other clients were…I’m trying to think who else did. I’ll have to think. I just can’t think of who else it would have been right now.”
CSC, CCME and SAS all now have contracts with or are sub-contracted to work for Cansler’s department.
Next the lawyer asked series of questions about Cansler’s former lobbying firm and out popped a fact no one knew: The whole time he’s been Secretary, Cansler’s old lobbying firm has been paying him $3000 a month.
So Cansler’s taking $3000 per month from his old firm, while awarding his firms’ clients state contracts. A conflict of interest? Well, no, not at all according to ethics Bev Perdue style. Not only has Cansler not done anything wrong according to the Governor’s Ethics Commission, he can go right on taking the $3000 per month.
The only real question left is, What is a conflict of interest in the Perdue Administration? And has the Governor ever found anyone who had one?
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats
Cansler’s Deposition Part Two
2010-06-07/
Back at the end of February Secretary Lanier Cansler was deposed and the lawyer doing the deposing asked him under oath what clients he’d represented as a lobbyist (before he was Secretary), and if any of them, back then, had done business with DHHS.
“Let’s see,” Cansler said, “clients I did was – Computer Sciences Corporation did at that time. CCME did at that time. Who else? SAS did at that time – I’m trying to remember who the clients are. It’s been a while. My mind is a blank. I can’t remember who the other clients were…I’m trying to think who else did. I’ll have to think. I just can’t think of who else it would have been right now.”
CSC, CCME and SAS all now have contracts with or are sub-contracted to work for Cansler’s department.
Next the lawyer asked series of questions about Cansler’s former lobbying firm and out popped a fact no one knew: The whole time he’s been Secretary, Cansler’s old lobbying firm has been paying him $3000 a month.
So Cansler’s taking $3000 per month from his old firm, while awarding his firms’ clients state contracts. A conflict of interest? Well, no, not at all according to ethics Bev Perdue style. Not only has Cansler not done anything wrong according to the Governor’s Ethics Commission, he can go right on taking the $3000 per month.
The only real question left is, What is a conflict of interest in the Perdue Administration? And has the Governor ever found anyone who had one?
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats