Irony Is a Disciplinarian Feared Only By Those Who Do Not Know It

As the Air Force begins another competition for their new tanker (a program that has seen bid protests and Boeing committing one of the largest ethics violations in years), Boeing's chief counsel for ethics and compliance, Stephen Epstein, offers advice on what companies should do to avoid violating revolving door prohibitions. He draws his expertise, in part, from experience: he's also the former director of the Department of Defense's standards of conduct office.  

While everyone insists that the tanker competition will be different this time, this hire indicates that Boeing may still have an excessive reliance on former government employees to monitor their own compliance with relevant laws.

(h/t Kierkegaard)

-- Mandy Smithberger