Both countries have denied anything improper went down during the bidding process.
But questions grew about what he knew about the improper practices going on at the newspapers under his watch, even though he has testified twice before Parliament saying that he believed the hacking was limited to one rogue journalist and a private investigator employed by The News of the World.
The institute referred questions to its lawyer, Jiang Jingchuan, who said that nothing improper had gone on.
"Once we have any inkling that there's anything improper, we go after them with every means available," Mr. Landgraf said.
On Thursday night, the official New China News Agency reported, an unidentified mainland official said, "Some posters and slogans put up by some organizers of the rally are improper and go against the common wishes of Hong Kong residents for seeking stability, development and harmony".
Now, like Claude Rains in Casablanca, Americans from the president downwards are shocked, shocked, to find improper accounting was going on here.
There is nothing improper about his going back a few years, revisiting a hard legal issue, and announcing that he might have made a mistake.
"And if I see patterns of conduct that is improper, I'm not going to tolerate it, even if it may make some people upset".
Improper payments "They're going to prove it," Gutierrez warned of the county's inquiry into checks allegedly made out to people who did no work for Teens.
Only vigorous enforcement actions by the SEC that holds private equity firms accountable for improper or fraudulent actions going back years or even decades can end such behavior.
