Sentence examples for improper gift from inspiring English sources

The State Ethics Commission announced yesterday that it had ordered a Metropolitan Transportation Authority official, Robert Rubenfeld, to pay a $2,000 fine for accepting an improper gift.

McConney said that Trump had also personally reimbursed the Trump Foundation for $25,000, covering the full value of the improper gift.

The Wimbledon tickets were an improper gift, VA's inspector general found, and, while in Europe, a VA staffer was made to act as a "personal travel concierge" for the Shulkins.

The only charge the committee cleared him of was an accusation that his involvement with the effort to build the school, the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, constituted an improper gift because it would provide him with an office and an archivist to oversee his papers after he retires.

But Ms. Posella said she thought that the relationship began as early as 1999, a crucial point that would support the contention of federal prosecutors that Mr. James steered the properties to Ms. Riley in exchange for her companionship and an improper gift of $5,000 worth of boxing tickets.

... [A senior vice president at the Trump Organization] said that Trump had also personally reimbursed the Trump Foundation for $25,000, covering the full value of the improper gift". -- Trump hired conservative firebrand David Bossie as his deputy campaign manager, Robert Costa reports.

At a New York press conference Senator Mitchell said that the credibility of the IOC had been 'gravely damaged' by the Salt Lake City episode and by 'a broader culture of improper gift-giving'.

When he delivered his Olympic findings and prescription for reform in early 1999, Mitchell cited a "culture of improper gift-giving" that had become endemic to the Olympic movement and he blamed the United States Olympic Committee for its lack of oversight of the bid.

An independent review of the chaos within the United States Olympic Committee will be led by Donald M. Fehr and Roberta Cooper Ramo, members of a commission that determined in 1999 that the Salt Lake City bribery scandal epitomized the Olympic movement's "culture of improper gift-giving".

Both sides deny making improper gifts.

Mr. Hevesi has denied accepting any improper gifts or bribes.