Ethics

Louisville’s Ethics Commission is expected to get funding for its first full-time employee this year, but that’s still less than what its leaders requested the past two years.

The Louisville Metro Ethics Commission approved an order to dismiss an ethics complaint against Mayor Craig Greenberg and his wife, Rachel, alleging nepotism violations and abuse of power.

A proposed real estate transaction that came together around the time of a recent misconduct trial in Louisville Metro Council likely would have violated local law, according to the city’s Ethics Commission.

U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield is resigning from office next week, four months before his term ends.

The House Committee on Ethics publicly reprimanded U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield Thursday for violating House rules in connection with his wife's former lobbying activities on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States.

Our newsroom put together this handy database examining the nepotism guidelines in every Kentucky county.

Kentucky has a patchwork of ethics policies, many legalizing nepotism, many with rules so infused with loopholes that public officials readily bring their relatives aboard.

A congressional ethics subcommittee has been directed to investigate whether U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield violated House rules in connection with his wife's lobbying work for The Humane Society of the United States.

The pending complaint does not address ethical issues raised earlier this year by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, which found that Whitfield, his wife and another powerful lobbyist had a longstanding financial partnership in property at a West Virginia luxury resort.

Whitfield said his lobbyist wife “most certainly did not convince me” to sponsor or support legislation. He also acknowledged a second ethics complaint against him, the focus of a recent KyCIR report.