And Mr. Sayres's generous payment of a consultant, Mal Schwartz, back in 2006, sowed deep resentments in the board and staff, some of whom began a sub rosa e-mail campaign suggesting financial improprieties (none have been found).
During a question-and-answer period, Robert Carroll, vice president of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, which endorsed Mr. Liu for comptroller in 2009, asked whether the same kinds of improprieties uncovered by The Times would be found in campaign filings from earlier years.
Mr. Grimm said in an interview that no matter what the investigative body, no improprieties in his fund-raising would be found.
Mr. Cramer said he had always taken care that "my firm's trading did not inappropriately benefit from my journalism" and that he had never been found guilty of improprieties.
The report said: "In spite of the rumour and speculation surrounding this meeting, no evidence has been found of any police impropriety or misconduct".
JPMorgan was widely expected to make big concessions as part of any bankruptcy settlement, because some former officials of the bank were found to have been involved in improprieties in connection with a county debt refinancing in 2002 and 2003.
It added: "No evidence has been found to conclude that there was any impropriety or misconduct in relation to the Friday Morning Club.
Although athletes benefitted from academic improprieties at the university in Smith's final years as a coach, no signs were found of his involvement in the scheme.
After his previous effort to cut financing to the Brooklyn Museum of Art was found unconstitutional, we hoped that the mayor would come to understand the impropriety of government censorship.
Corporate corruption cases involving accounting improprieties are particularly labor intensive.
CRITICISMS of Romanian corruption and democratic improprieties are common enough in Brussels.
