US-Agency-Engineers-Revolving-Door-Employment-Integrity-Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#US-Agency-Engineers-Revolving-Door-Employment-Integrity-Obligation
Properties
Instance of
RevolvingDoorEmploymentAcceptanceIntegrityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RevolvingDoorEmploymentAcceptanceIntegrityObligation
Case context
The engineers resigned from the U.S. Agency and immediately entered into contract with the foreign government through their joint venture, with no cooling-off period between their public role and their private engagement on the same project.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Obligated party
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Obligation statement
The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to refrain from accepting private employment — through joint venture or otherwise — on the hydroelectric project without ensuring that a sufficient cooling-off period had elapsed and that adequate conflict-of-interest safeguards had been established, given that they had held public positions with direct responsibility for the basic plans of that same project.
Temporal scope
At the point of departure from U.S. Agency employment and acceptance of private contract
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
No Formal Revolving Do or Prohibition on US Agency Engineers, US Agency Engineers Revolving Do or Transition
derivedFromPrinciple
Revolving Do or Integrity Violation by U.S. Agency Engineers
Source Evidence
Source text
At or about the time the negotiations with the foreign government were concluded, this group of engineers resigned their positions with the U.S. Agency and shortly thereafter entered into contract with the foreign government
Text references
At or about the time the negotiations with the foreign government were concluded, this group of engineers resigned their positions with the U.S. Agency and shortly thereafter entered into contract with the foreign government
TTL
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case102:US-Agency-Engineers-Revolving-Door-Employment-Integrity-Obligation a proeth:RevolvingDoorEmploymentAcceptanceIntegrityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "US-Agency-Engineers-Revolving-Door-Employment-Integrity-Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#NSPE_Policy_52_Mobility_Right_Ethics_Conditioned_Exercise_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers> ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case102:No_Formal_Revolving_Door_Prohibition_on_US_Agency_Engineers,
case102:US_Agency_Engineers_Revolving_Door_Transition ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#NSPE_Policy_52_Mobility_Right_Ethics_Conditioned_Exercise_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers> ;
proeth:casecontext "The engineers resigned from the U.S. Agency and immediately entered into contract with the foreign government through their joint venture, with no cooling-off period between their public role and their private engagement on the same project." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.89" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case102:Revolving_Door_Integrity_Violation_by_U.S._Agency_Engineers ;
proeth:discoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "U.S. Agency Engineers Group" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Revolving Door Employment Acceptance Integrity Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to refrain from accepting private employment — through joint venture or otherwise — on the hydroelectric project without ensuring that a sufficient cooling-off period had elapsed and that adequate conflict-of-interest safeguards had been established, given that they had held public positions with direct responsibility for the basic plans of that same project." ;
proeth:sourcetext "At or about the time the negotiations with the foreign government were concluded, this group of engineers resigned their positions with the U.S. Agency and shortly thereafter entered into contract with the foreign government" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the point of departure from U.S. Agency employment and acceptance of private contract" ;
proeth:textreferences "At or about the time the negotiations with the foreign government were concluded, this group of engineers resigned their positions with the U.S. Agency and shortly thereafter entered into contract with the foreign government" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 102 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:27:05.300601"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 102 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
102
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00
First case
102
Generated
2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00
Attributed to
Case 102 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:27:05.300601
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction