But when contacted previously, his lawyer had said it was a private matter and involved no impropriety.
A council has dropped a five-year, £200,000 legal campaign trying to unmask a blogger called Mr Monkey, who made allegations of impropriety against four senior members of the authority.
PBS initially denied any impropriety by taking Arnold's money, but soon returned the funds after public outrage.
A week later Profumo denied in parliament any "impropriety whatever" in his relations with Keeler, but on 5 June he admitted lying and resigned.
In his defence, Sabey told the court he considered Brunt to be a "whistle blower" who wanted to expose impropriety or wrongdoing.
Cyrus is in full-on post-Disney mode: something we've seen before, but her ownership of it is more wilful in its impropriety – including, but certainly not limited to, sexuality – than, say, Britney and Justin were before her.
While there is nothing to suggest impropriety on behalf of senior Ofsted figures in the east of England, the Observer understands that close relationships were formed between De Souza and Ofsted's director and his deputy in the area, Sean Harford and Paul Brooker.
It is now unthinkable that play might be halted for a day because of accusations of umpiring impropriety, as happened following the Shakoor Rana affair during England's tour of Pakistan in 1987.
Avoiding the perception of impropriety in the administration of justice is a compelling state goal, he writes, and banning personal solicitation by judicial candidates is a narrowly tailored strategy for advancing it.
His predecessor in the position, Norihiko Akagi, was compelled to resign after the July upper-house election, having battled various allegations of impropriety connected to political finance.
