Loux cleared on charges of unauthorized raises

The Ethics Commission has cleared former Agency for Nuclear Projects administrator Bob Loux of charges he improperly gave himself and staff unauthorized raises.

Loux said afterward he was relieved, satisfied that justice had been done and felt all along he had done nothing wrong.

The vote by the five-member commission was 3-2.

Commission member George Keele said Loux had authorization to set salaries at whatever level he desired as long as the total pool for salaries authorized for his office was not exceeded.

One of the dissenting commissioners, Robert Weise, said he felt Loux had been exonerated on a technicality.