A new report on conflict of interest laws for public officials ranks Minnesota in the bottom third among states. The Center for Public Integrity - a Washington-based non-partisan watchdog group - found a number of weaknesses in Minnesota's laws requiring state legislators to disclose their financial interests. The report comes in the wake of an ethics finding that Senator Dallas Sams improperly concealed a consulting payment from the University of Minnesota.
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