The borough attorney cleared two Haines assembly members of alleged ethics violations following citizens’ complaints.

Assembly members Natalie Dawson and Ben Aultman-Moore were accused of having a conflict of interest when they voted to ask Constantine to share information about its planned resource exploration activities. 

The attorney’s memos — a total of 19 heavily annotated pages —  found that the members actions did not constitute ethics violations, since the assembly members couldn’t be considered to…