Mr. Hevesi said there was no evidence to suggest wrongdoing by the Doe Fund, the Manhattan nonprofit group that would set up the shelter.
A law-enforcement official said that nothing had been uncovered to suggest wrongdoing by Mr. Leventhal but that the investigation was continuing.
The House committee, in rejecting the ethics office's recommendation for further investigation into Mr. Tiahrt and Mr. Visclosky, said the cases against the two lawmakers did not differ significantly from the other five and that no clear evidence emerged to suggest wrongdoing by any.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), declaring that "there is absolutely nothing to suggest wrongdoing" by Alexander, protested in a letter to Kennedy that committee investigators appear to be on a "fishing expedition". Kennedy denied it, saying in a statement: "The committee is processing the nomination as expeditiously as possible.
But in ordering up a new inquiry, Mr. Trump went beyond his usual tactics of suggesting wrongdoing and political bias by those investigating him, and crossed over into applying overt presidential pressure on the Justice Department to do his bidding, an extraordinary realm where past presidents have hesitated to tread.
Indeed, the stockholder testified that "he [wa]s not aware of any facts suggesting wrongdoing, mismanagement, or waste relating to the compensation decision…." The court also noted that the stockholder plaintiff had served as what Vice Chancellor Laster described as the "nominal plaintiff" in at least seven other lawsuits prosecuted by the same law firm in which he had had minimal involvement.
To the IRS, offshore entities suggest wrongdoing.
The breakdown began with the so-called "midnight run" in March 2017 when Nunes went to the White House complex at night to view classified information he later suggested revealed wrongdoing by the Obama administration.
"He suggests that the charges are trumped up and that there was no wrongdoing," Mr. Roberts said.
The tax experts consulted by The Times said nothing in the 1995 documents suggested any wrongdoing by Mr. Trump, even if the extraordinary size of the loss he declared would have probably attracted extra scrutiny from I.R.S. examiners.
What's more, a plurality of respondents — 46percentt — say the convictions and guilty pleas of members of Trump's 2016 campaign suggest potential wrongdoing by the president, compared with 23percentt who believe the wrongdoing is limited only to those individuals; 28percentt don't know enough to say.
