Updated: May. 01, 2024, 9:50 a.m.Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans, shown here speaking at a 2019 news conference, resigned from his position abruptly during a Monday executive session of the commission. File/Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.
He went on: “It recently came to light Bryan had a business relationship with several Game Commission employees and received income through that relationship. That’s not to suggest there were any ethical violations on his part, but there were questions about the appropriateness of those business relationships, and ultimately he chose to resign.”
But Maloney told PennLive on Wednesday that concerns about Burhans’ side business brought to mind a 2016 ethics violation involving another former Game Commission employee for a conflict of interest that resulted in a $75,000 fine, theIn that incident, William Capouillez, director of the commission’s Bureau of Wildlife Habitat Management, was found to be negotiating gas drilling leases for private landowners around the state at the same time he was overseeing leases with the same drillers for...