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‘Where was the University’s due diligence? Did they not know a prominent faculty member was pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?’

The University of Texas has a fracking mess on its hands because a prominent professor didn’t disclose – in a study he authored about the fracking industry – his big financial investment in the fracking industry.

Dude still doesn’t get it: “Disclosing my Plains board position would not have served any meaningful purpose relevant to this study.” What a tool.

Margaret Soltan, July 25, 2012 3:12AM
Posted in: conflict of interest

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2 Responses to “‘Where was the University’s due diligence? Did they not know a prominent faculty member was pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?’”

  1. MattF Says:
    July 25th, 2012 at 8:15AM

    I always thought that the story about the Baltimore pol who dismissed an accusation of conflict of interest because it ‘didn’t conflict with any of my interests’ was apocryphal, but it actually happened:

    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-12-05/news/1993339126_1_conflict-lawmakers-maloney

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    July 25th, 2012 at 8:17AM

    MattF: Hilarious!

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