Consulting work for EFSEC clients
Beckett has sought to get in front of conflict-of-interest concerns. He told Cascade PBS that he was upfront with the Governor’s Office about his ties to energy developers and sought the advice of the assistant attorney general, the EFSEC director and the Executive Ethics Board about whether anything he did crossed a line that would disqualify him.
“I tried to say, ‘Look, I’ve done work in this space, it’s EFSEC. Are there nonstarters here that perception-wise or politically … create an issue that is more of a distraction or just can’t be resolved?’” Beckett said.
Those gatekeepers gave him the greenlight, he said.
Beckett declined
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