Public Employee Conferences as Venues For Corruption

Financial firms among corporations using public employee conferences as chance to lobby government | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

From May 3 to May 7 of this year, hundreds of pension trustees from around the nation gathered at the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems’ annual conference in New Orleans. The gathering, billed as educational, also featured representatives of dozens of financial firms eager to expand their business. Of the 66 speakers at the…