Post by Logan on Jan 16, 2016 3:49:10 GMT -6
A state ethics panel has dismissed complaints against several current and former state Department of Commerce officials involved in a clean-energy grant program.
The Seattle Times and public-radio Northwest News Network reported last month on revolving-door questions surrounding a portion of the state’s $36 million Clean Energy Fund, created in 2013 at the request of Gov. Jay Inslee.
The controversy has centered on three former Commerce officials who went to work for startup firms benefiting from energy-fund grants awarded by their former agency.
Rogers Weed, the former Commerce director, and Daniel Malarkey, former deputy director, now work at Seattle software firm 1Energy Systems. The company was founded by David Kaplan, who’d previously been a consultant at Commerce.
Continue reading at www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/ethics-board-clears-former-state-commerce-officials/ .
The Seattle Times and public-radio Northwest News Network reported last month on revolving-door questions surrounding a portion of the state’s $36 million Clean Energy Fund, created in 2013 at the request of Gov. Jay Inslee.
The controversy has centered on three former Commerce officials who went to work for startup firms benefiting from energy-fund grants awarded by their former agency.
Rogers Weed, the former Commerce director, and Daniel Malarkey, former deputy director, now work at Seattle software firm 1Energy Systems. The company was founded by David Kaplan, who’d previously been a consultant at Commerce.
Continue reading at www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/ethics-board-clears-former-state-commerce-officials/ .