In seeking to avoid any appearance of impropriety, the trust sets parameters for the defense fund.
But, she said, the commissioner had made the reimbursement to avoid any hint of impropriety.
With commendable attention to detail, Mr Morgan points out how Petacci's skirt had been carefully secured to her body to avoid any semblance of impropriety.
When I met Grylls to agree final versions of his entry in my Parliamentary Profiles, he always attempted to avoid any hint of impropriety.
In an effort to "avoid any appearance of impropriety," Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, donated campaign contributions from the Enron Corporation to a charter school.
One Florida county judge, Nina Ashenafi Richardson of Tallahassee, said the rule was "probably a good idea, just to avoid any perceptions of impropriety".
Others have taken back complimentary gifts to avoid any hint of impropriety that could mire them, or the legislators, in another lobbying scandal.
Nor does Mr. Carona, a wealthy businessman who travels frequently for work, generally accept travel per diems when the Legislature is not in session, to "avoid any appearance of impropriety".
In a draft of a report he prepared last summer, however, Mr. Hess concluded that although Mr. Safir had not violated any ethics rules or law, he should make full reimbursement for the trip to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
Two years earlier, after Mr. Torricelli had been roundly criticized for such deals, he had vowed never to buy into them again in order to avoid any appearance of impropriety or special treatment.
Nonetheless, in April of that year, the chairman of the commission, Mr. Gaines, recused himself from matters concerning the Gambino request, explaining in an interview that he wanted to avoid any hint of impropriety.
