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Pennsylvania's "Open Records Law" (also known as the "Right-to-Know Law"), and was subsequently awarded the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's "Northrop Award for Open Government. He sponsored the law that provides for web based access to reports by lobbyists and those who
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Symposium of Economic Crime. His lectures have included "Forensic Auditing" and "Accounting for Integrity" to audiences including business and law enforcement leaders from more than sixty nations, including the heads of Interpol and Europol, attorneys general and ambassadors of many
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Integrity Act, which criminalized material deceptions committed in connection with a CPA's attestation report intended for public use. The law makes it a crime for anyone, such as a company executive or director, to provide false or misleading information to deceive the
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Council for 2009 through 2010, and has been active since the early 1980s with the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, including serving multiple years on each of the PICPA Strategic Advisory Board, Editorial Board of Pennsylvania CPA Journal and Trustee of the Pennsylvania Institute
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Pennsylvania awarded Maher its "Champion of Good Government" award for 2009. Maher is the only Pennsylvania state official honored with this award during this century. The Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association together with the
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Pennsylvania's 3,000 plus local taxing jurisdictions and nearly 600 tax collectors. This uniform standard enabled streamlining of local tax collectors, which were reduced to fewer than six dozen on January 1, 2012.
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Veterinary Medicine presented him with its highest honor, The Distinguished Service Award, in 2011, for his work to combat animal cruelty and advance animal health and veterinary medicine in the Commonwealth. The
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