That could lead to a large and possibly embarrassing charge against earnings and capital.
He argued that the left should not be embarrassed by charges of populism, whether directed at Chávez or at the Greek leftwing party Syriza.
In the last year, the authority has been embarrassed by charges that it hired two contractors who falsified their qualifications and did shoddy work, and who were also Republican fund-raisers.
Officials here have been embarrassed by charges that the courts have gone after former East German border guards in their 20s for shooting fellow citizens as they tried to flee to the West but have yet to try those who formulated the shoot-to-kill policies and issued the orders.
Time and again, MSU, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee have neglected to remedy decades of institutional failures, despite embarrassing resignations, criminal charges and even bankruptcy.
Worse, it will reinforce the over-simplistic thinking about food intake that ought to embarrass those charged with understanding a complex issue.
He was denied the Tory whip, informed that he would be investigated for the easily proved charge of embarrassing his party, and, taking the hint, announced that he would resign his seat in May.
And with the Ambrosiano case expected to go to trial this year, the Vatican is again bracing for fresh charges and possibly embarrassing revelations about its responsibility for Italy's biggest postwar financial scandal.
Mr. Pazienza's charges are potentially embarrassing for the Italian and United States since he has implied repeatedly that Reagan Administration officials were also aware of the plan to involve Bulgaria in what was essentially a plot by anti-Christian, right-wing Turkish extremists, with the possible collusion of rightist Italian activists.
They were indicted on bribery charges and scorned for embarrassing the city.
