The phrase "act of malfeasance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to describe an act that is wrongful or illegal, especially by a public official.
Example: "The investigation revealed an act of malfeasance that led to the official's resignation."
Alternatives: "wrongful act" or "illegal act".
As the documentation of Berenson's world becomes more fine-grained, it emerges that the real danger for his reputation was not a specific act of malfeasance, or the fact that he had money, but that his money, like that of his tin-peddling father, depended on trade.
He fired the Air Force chief of staff, General T. Michael Moseley (ostensibly for some other act of malfeasance but really because of his resistance to UAVs), and appointed in his place General Norton Schwartz, who had risen as a gunship and cargo-transport pilot in special operations forces.
Second, directors of companies should be held personally liable for fines imposed on their company for any acts of malfeasance.
Among other acts of malfeasance, Congress has refused to give the USPTO the funding it needs to do the job properly, in part by appropriating the fees the agency collects from applicants in order to fund other programmes.
Four lawmakers have recently been accused of various acts of malfeasance, including Malcolm A. Smith, the Democratic senator from Queens who was charged with trying to bribe his way into the New York City mayor's race, and Assemblyman Eric A. Stevenson, a Bronx Democrat, who was accused of taking bribes from developers of adult day care centers in his district.
O'Meally has served as an adjunct professor lecturing on sport management, NCAA governance, and issues that impact women including domestic violence, rape and other acts of malfeasance against women.
You haven't lived until you've experienced a jump-scare based on an act of corporate malfeasance.
Anyone trying to excuse this egregious act of gross malfeasance is either a White House official, or an inmate at San Quentin trying to get clemency before being hauled off to Death Row.
Under what circumstances should forensic accountants be brought into a case, and what methods do they use to uncover and investigate possible acts of misfeasance or malfeasance?
The facts that emerged after the shareholder vote in Occam illustrate why the "irrebuttable business judgment rule" standard is inherently unjust and threatens to shield troubling acts of corporate malfeasance.
When the board of a company continues to make decisions that negatively impacts the financial situation of said company it is, under Japan's Companies Act, the duty of the CEO to address these acts of corporate malfeasance and if need be to make the shareholders aware of the problem – and possibly file criminal charges.
