Many sites sell DNP, although it is not uncommon to discover warnings such as "the excessive and improper use of DNP can lead to death!" on sites where it is sold in £30 or £50 batches.
From his F.B.I. work from January to August of 2009, Mr. Leibowitz also believed that Israeli diplomats' efforts to influence Congress and shape American public opinion were excessive and improper, Mr. Silverstein said.
A brief sampling of violations — aired in court cases, Congressional testimony and academic research — include excessive fees, improper denial of loan modifications, irregularities in the packaging of mortgages and conflicts of interest that lead banks to favor foreclosures over modifications.
They hired consultants to analyze cases in which borrowers suspected that they had been injured by bank practices, such as levying excessive and improper fees or foreclosing when a borrower was undergoing a loan modification.
On Friday, Mr. Picard sued four members of the Madoff family for almost $200 million they received over the years, asserting that the money represented excessive paychecks, improper use of company cash and fabricated investment profits that should have alerted them to the underlying fraud.
In what transplant experts believe is the first such case in the country, prosecutors have charged the surgeon, Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, with prescribing excessive and improper doses of drugs, apparently in an attempt to hasten Mr. Navarro's death to retrieve his organs sooner.
As the Washington Post pointed out this week, research on opioid addiction has all but confirmed that "excessive and improper prescriptions" for pain medication are responsible for most people getting hooked; Hurd estimates that it's how four of five heroin-users get started.
"The excessive and improper use of these so-called crowd control weapons have led to the injury and killing of many Palestinians, among them children," he said.
But beyond that Aug. 18 meeting, more must be done to heal public trust scarred by allegations of excessive and improper use of force that have resulted in the firings of 10 police officers, multiple lawsuits involving claims of widespread racial discrimination within the department and a veteran officer's work-related public suicide.
