This is why disclosure of industry ties is necessary to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
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Because the appearance of impropriety is as powerful as the act of impropriety.
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And then there is a part of my naivety that says the appearance of impropriety is enough of a deterrent.
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Orr resigned his partnership at Jones, Day, although not required by law, in order to avoid any appearance of impropriety, he said.
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To remove the appearance of impropriety, he could have ordered Sokol to sell his shares of Lubrizol in the public market, or to Berkshire.
Any time that type of language is used it raises a level of an appearance of impropriety, and the public should be up in arms.
"I actually think it's the appearance of impropriety, " Mr. Lhota said.
"We ordered Congressman Foley to cease all contact with this former House page to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, " Shimkus said in a statement Friday.
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Nonetheless, Henry Hu, who teaches securities law at the University of Texas law school in Austin, says Spitzer should have avoided even the appearance of impropriety.
The policy said that employees in positions of authority must report such relations to "eliminate conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety" or be subject to discipline.
Charles Grassley and then by the companies, Kastelein angrily raised the possibility last July that a delay could lead to the appearance of impropriety, even if the companies had good intentions.
Campbell said that in the future, the duties of the off-ice crew members at the Staples Center would be rotated to make sure the clock operator isn't always the same person and to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
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The license plate alone, which can help with courthouse parking, is not intrinsically unethical and doesn't necessarily create an appearance of impropriety, though judges who invoke their judicial status when pulled over by police are misbehaving, the report said.
"We find those facts raise at least an appearance of an impropriety, " the report says.
And the appearance of any impropriety, I didn't want to have it.
Committee members said they were concerned that the "content of his comedy routine could give rise to an appearance of bias, partiality or impropriety or otherwise negatively affect the dignity of the judiciary, " according to court papers.
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