Sentence examples for improper payment from inspiring English sources

As the S.E.C. noted in a statement of facts accompanying the nonprosecution agreement, the company did not identify a single instance of an improper payment during the four years in which the violations occurred.

The main underwriter of those bonds, Bear Stearns, was later found to have made an improper payment to win the business, figuring in the corruption trial of a former governor, Rod R. Blagojevich.

The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated a national improper payment rate for Medicaid of 9.4 percent (with the federal share estimated at $22.5 billion) for fiscal year 2010.

(One of the school's main benefactors was Armand Hammer, the former chairman of Occidental Petroleum, whose 1990 obituary in the Times avoided the posthumous parallax by noting an improper payment to a Soviet Minister of Culture and the suit brought by his own wife after he managed to abscond with part of her art collection).

The GAO found that "improper payment estimates" reached nearly $125 billion during the last fiscal year a $19 billion rise from the year before mostly because of misplaced generosity to recipients of Medicare, Medicaid and the Earned Income Tax Credit.Here, too, the report's authors offer some handy penny-saving tips.

The narrow issue before the panel was whether this was an issue of conduct detrimental to the league, which would fall under Goodell's jurisdiction, or, as the players' union contended, whether the offering of money to players constituted an improper payment, which would be a salary-cap violation, the penalties for which would be decided by an arbitrator.

But the prosecutors contended that the "core" of their case against Mr. Bruno had included improper payments.

Certain services may be more susceptible than others to improper payments.

"Medical device manufacturers must not be permitted to use improper payments to cloud that judgment".

The G.A.O. said the Agriculture Department had had some success in finding improper payments.

The administration does not try to define the difference between proper and improper payments.