Sunny Mindel, a spokeswoman for Mayor Giuliani, dismissed the articles as "full of innuendo and suggestions but revealing no improper activities on the part of the administration".
"On a number of occasions, FERC was provided with sufficient information to raise suspicions of improper activities -- or had itself identified potential problems -- in areas where it had regulatory responsibilities over Enron, but failed to understand the significance of the information or its implications".
"We have worked hard to help ensure the integrity of elections held on our campus and will continue to take allegations of improper activities seriously".
"The improper activities detailed in this report are extremely troubling," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D.-Ariz.,chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
In spite of the inspector general's statement that there was no evidence of political motivation, the sides diverged over whether the improper activity was evidence of broader bias on behalf of the Obama administration.
They said it involved deft international lobbying, not improper activities.
The company said this suit was filed after the employee had been fired for improper activities.
Mr. Slater said Pertamina had not engaged in any improper activities.
We accept full responsibility for these improper activities".
"We think there is a fair amount of improper activity," in the sale of replacement variable annuities, the official, James S. Shorris, said.
