Adviser Erica Taylor of Wichita founded two non-profits in the 1990s that were struck off the state register for failing to file accounts, according to filings at the office of the Kansas secretary of state.
The news of Mr. Murdoch's departure from the two boards, two months after the moves occurred, broke when a reporter for The Evening Standard, which is not a Murdoch property, examined filings at Companies House, the government agency where privately owned businesses in Britain file financial statements and other corporate documents.
Shanghai and other big cities had even seen a surge in the number of divorce filings at marriage bureaus, with many couples openly admitting that they were filing for divorce simply to get around property rules and that they would later remarry.
The turnover has coincided with bankruptcy filings at US Airways and United Airlines, a unit of the UAL Corporation; the threat of a filing at Delta Air Lines; and a close call at American Airlines, a unit of the AMR Corporation, which avoided having to seek bankruptcy-court protection only by receiving last-minute employee concessions.
filings at this stage in the process.
That increase left such filings at the highest level since late December 2003.
American officials have repeatedly declined to say whether the clean energy investigation might lead to further filings at the W.T.O.
It said it would reveal details of those sales "in the appropriate S.E.C. filings at the appropriate time".
Personal bankruptcy filings, at about 29,000 a week nationwide, are only slightly higher than they were in August.
The total cost of the project, comprising direct and indirect costs, was given in Liberty Bond filings at $540 million.
Analysts say the shutdowns and bankruptcy filings at the end of last year were prompted largely by factors unique to the individual publications and organizations.
