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QUESTION
To what extent can the Conflicts of Interest Board conduct its own investigation amid an FBI investigation?
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The Conflicts of Interest Board evaluates evidence independently while criminal investigations proceed on a separate track.
- Criminal investigations and the Conflicts of Interest Board's evaluations occur simultaneously but independently.
- The Board makes judgments based on the evidence presented to it.
- This process ensures that potential conflicts of interest are scrutinized without interfering with ongoing criminal inquiries.
Adrienne E. Adams
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Recently, the FBI actually arrested a large number of mid level managers at night shift.
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For allegedly taking bribes in connection with the issuance of contracts when law enforcement arrests and charges public servants for alleged crimes that may fall within a category of activity prohibited by chapter 68.
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To what extent this coy have to defer to law enforcement and to what extent is Qoib able to conduct its own independent investigation?
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So my understanding of how the process works is
Milton Williams
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criminal investigation is we'll we'll go we'll run it we'll go along and and proceed on its own separate track.
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And if something comes to us, we will evaluate it and make our own judgments based on the evidence that we have.
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Okay.
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