Under an agreement, Blue Cross will cooperate with prosecutors in a continuing investigation, accept increased oversight for two years and acknowledge responsibility for the conduct of its executives.
Now that company board members are being held more rigorously responsible for the conduct of top executives, they often insist on bringing in the investigators.
Dee A. Soder, president of the CEO Perspective Group, a consulting firm, interviewed 50 directors from various companies and found that women were often the first to raise concerns about the conduct of chief executives.
Lawyers involved in the Fannie Mae investigation underway at the commission and at the Justice Department said that, now that the commission's chief accountant has ruled, the S.E.C. will focus more sharply on the reasons for the violations and the conduct of top executives.
Later statutes gave the governor the power to appoint advisory committees on reorganization, appoint deputy heads of divisions, transfer employees and change their responsibilities within the executive branch, and establish general rules of conduct for executive branch members.
It is looking into the conduct of the executive services detail under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after allegations that he had had sex with prostitutes.
A Premier League audit and remuneration committee is looking into the conduct of chief executive Scudamore, 54.
Two years ago, the Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in association with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), conducted a survey of executives and school superintendents.
The settlement of the tax dispute will not halt the criminal investigation into the conduct of three Apple Italia executives but will likely reduce the severity of any potential sanctions, La Repubblica said.
Like the Telegraph with MPs expenses, if the paper can produce a relentless stream of allegations which ask difficult questions of the bidding process and the conduct of senior Fifa executives, then it will be impossible for Fifa to hold the line - especially if their multi-million pound sponsors start to get nervous.
The letter alleged a variety of improprieties, from inappropriate sexual conduct to the hiring of executives whose only credentials seemed to be their personal ties to top management.
