Did former state official break state ethics rule before becoming biotech-industry honcho?

Scott Allen Miller reads a recent Globe story about how Robert Coughlin moved from state officialdom to the chairmanship of the Mass. Biotechnology Council and notices an interesting detail buried far down the story: Coughlin entertained the CEO of a biotech company in Skybox seats at Fenway Park, using tickets given his office by WEEI for having placed some ads on the station.

So? As Miller explains, Skybox tickets are worth far more than the $50 that is the maximum price of tickets state employees are allowed to accept for free. Plus, he explains why one might ask whether those tickets helped get Coughlin his job at the council.