As Mr. Hevesi was settling into the state comptroller's office in 2003, Mr. Morris took another step that, prosecutors say, showed he was preparing to exploit the office's sole authority over the state's $122 billion public employee retirement fund.
"If President-elect Trump sold his brand, he would be entitled to royalties for the use of it," Dillion said, "and this would result in the trust retaining an interest in the brand without the ability to assure that it does not exploit the office of the presidency".
"You have exploited the power of your office to overturn the express will of the people," said Judi Polson of the Upper West Side.
After being humiliated in November's elections, he exploited the power of the Oval Office to introduce his own version of immigration reform, to reach an unexpected climate-change agreement with the Chinese, and to take a big step toward the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
Again Leviev exploited the situation.
Law Professor Koos Malan, challenges the way public office here is misused, writing, "public office somehow entitles public office-bearers to exploit the power and authority of public office to achieve maximum private gain... and to receive public accolades for these successes".
Perhaps then Mr. Santorum will recognize the proper role of religion in public policy: one's faith may properly inform an official's opinion, but an elected leader must not exploit the power of a public office to make that faith into the law for everyone.
- Exploit the power of fear.
To his critics, who complained that he exploited the attorney general's office to gain the governor's mansion, he was too political to be a prosecutor and yet is now too prosecutorial to be a politician.
