According to The Office of Professional Discipline of the State of New York, there were no official ethics complaints on Friehling until the Madoff case.

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"CEOs say their people are fundamentally honest, or you can't teach values, but I disagree, " says Alan Yuspeh, HCA's top ethics official.

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An ethics committee official said Friday that neither a vote nor a public hearing had been scheduled in the Ensign investigation prior to his announcement.

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The matter is now before the House Committee on Official Conduct, better known as the Ethics Committee, and that prompted these thoughts from news analyst Daniel Schorr.

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