{"id":491791,"date":"2026-10-10T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491791\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:28:12","slug":"markkula-center-for-applied-ethics-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491791\/","title":{"rendered":"Markkula Center for Applied Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Middle East U.S. diplomat, Thomas Barrack, pushed for a firm to take part in the development of an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria\u2013a firm run by Barrack&#8217;s business partner. The action appears to violate federal ethics rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ethical concern is the appearance of a conflict of interest,\u201d said Ann Skeet, interim executive director at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Skeet, interim executive director, quoted by <a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-envoy-kept-financial-ties-firm-behind-15-billion-hormuz-bypass-oil-2026-10-09\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middle East U.S. diplomat, Thomas Barrack, pushed for a firm to take part in the development of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-491791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}