51. Also Tuesday, Ninian Stephen, a former High Court justice and governor-general of Australia, was appointed a member of the IOC ethics commission. 52. An IOC ethics commission, formed in the wake of the Salt Lake scandal, met last week and drafted a code of conduct for IOC members. 53. Any allegations meriting investigation would be dealt with by the new IOC ethics commission, which was set up in the wake of the Salt Lake affair. 54. But if something is wrong, the ethics commission can propose that we act. 55. Details were still being put together, the NABC said, but the ethics commission would have some way to sanction members. 56. Florida ethics law require the governor to file the form detailing his income, assets and liabilities to the state ethics commission. 57. Gosper said the latest cases would be examined by the ethics commission. 58. Gosper said if the board had completed its investigation of Coles by the time of the first ethics commission meeting, it would hand over the investigation. 59. He said an ongoing investigation into Australian IOC member Phil Coles would likely be handed from the board to the ethics commission. 60. He suggested an ethics commission be formed to deal with that issue. |
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