Posted on 01/23/2010 1:54:55 PM PST by dodger
University of Maryland professor reprimanded for apparent conflict of interest.
He wrote legal opinion on university letterhead, did not disclose fees from union.
By Childs Walker
A professor at the University of Maryland, College Park is facing conflict-of- interest questions after he used university letterhead to deliver a legal opinion in his role as a consultant to a labor union.
Fred Feinstein, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy, wrote a letter saying that California health care employees could jeopardize their contract benefits if they left Service Employees International for a competing union. Feinstein received $240,000 in consulting fees from SEIU in 2007 and 2008, which he did not mention in the Jan. 12 letter that was distributed as a flier in the continuing union battle.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Shyster!
Or, is it he is an intellectual whore of the left who is paid per episode to advance Marxism?
Hmmm, wouldn't want to impugn the man's character by guessing.
Nothing ta see here!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
This guy is a bully and a worm in our Demo”rat” state. Which in November will a Republican one!!!
[Mrs]T
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