In previous cases made public by the inspector general's office or its partners in investigating cases of malfeasance involving the bailout, the figures have been substantially lower.
A1 C.E.O.'s Share the Pressure America's chief executives, under pressure after several high-profile cases of malfeasance, are sharing the pressure by demanding more disclosure and accountability from the middle ranks.
On June 21st the lower house of Congress voted to impeach him, charging him both with failing in his duties regarding the deaths of the farmers and with various cases of malfeasance earlier in his presidency, including allowing his leftist allies to hold a meeting in an army base and not taking sufficient action against a guerrilla group.
Cases of malfeasance, no matter how horrible, are no reason to broadly condemn an entire enterprise.
Hu Xingdou, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, called the failure to enforce adequate building standards a case of "serious malfeasance" on the part of local governments.
In a surprising offer, he suggested it might be time to create a press ombudsman who, in case of extreme malfeasance, should have the power to impose fines.
But she made her mark as soon as her reformer's platform got her elected to Congress, leading a crusade against corruption with fiery speeches and investigations that unmasked case after case of official malfeasance.
Most cases of corporate malfeasance are to do with money and belong in civil courts.
Government officials pointed out that they had commissioned an audit last year by two American law firms and the investigative firm of Kroll Inc. that had found evidence of six cases of financial malfeasance during Ms. Tymoshenko's tenure.
Now, 20 months later, the Congress Party has suffered setbacks in elections in the state of Bihar and is wounded by corruption scandals linked to the Commonwealth Games, the government's allotment of 2G telecommunications spectrum and other cases of official malfeasance.
