The Standards of Conduct Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel's Office has assembled an "encyclopedia" of cases of ethical failure for use as a training tool. These are real examples of Federal employees who have intentionally or unwittingly violated standards of conduct. Some cases are humorous, some sad, and all are real. Some will anger you as a Federal employee and some will anger you as an American taxpayer. Note the multiple jail and probation sentences, fines, employment terminations and other sanctions that were taken as a result of these ethical failures. Violations of many ethical standards involve criminal statutes. This updated (end of 2009) edition is organized by type of violations, including conflicts of interest, misuse of Government equipment, violations of post-employment restrictions, and travel.

The General Counsel of the Department of Defense authorized page changes to DoD 55OO. 7-R, 'Joint Ethics Regulation (JER), ' August 1993. These changes are indicated in this document.

THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZED PAGE CHANGES TO DODD 5500.7-R, 'JOINT ETHICS REGULATION, AUGUST 1993. THESE CHANGES ARE INDICATED IN THIS DOCUMENT.

This publication, Department of Defense Directive DoDD 5500.7-R Joint Ethics Regulation (JER) with Change 7 November 2011, was originally published on August 30th, 1993. It has been updated 7 times, with the most recent changes occurring on November 17th, 2011. This printing includes current version of the directive with all 7 changes implemented.

Ethical conduct standards have been a great concern of the Department of Defense (DoD) for decades. This is especially true in how its employees, particularly contracting officials, use them in making an ethical business decision. Most recently, August 30, 1993, DoD reissued the DODD 5500.7, Standards of Conduct and implemented the new DoD 5500.7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation (JER) to 'standardize' all ethical conduct standards. These ethical conduct standards, contained in the JER, represent one standard meant to be followed by all DoD components. This Thesis develops a model ethics program meant for use by all DoD component contracting offices and other entities such as a contracting division of a systems command. It contains standardized program elements used to implement the conduct standards espoused in the JER.