Bradley disputed the finding and said he had "no involvement in contracting the firm".
A BBC spokesman said: "The BBC had absolutely no involvement in this contract".
The opinion, written by Wayne G. Hawley, deputy counsel, advised Mr. Turner that his involvement in the contract process did not appear to violate any city rules, because the consulting job provided to his father-in-law involved work in Wisconsin, and had nothing to do with the welfare programs in New York.
The jury was not told that at the time of the murder Bieber was on the run from the American authorities, who wanted to question him over his involvement in the contract killing of a fellow bodybuilder in his native Florida.
He also sued Mr. Calderón, the editor of Vanguardia, and another journalist for a book they had written about Mr. Correa's older brother, Fabricio Correa, and his involvement in government contracts.
Because of the clients' involvement in the process, contract publishers have considerations that other publishers may not have.
However, state prosecutors have said they could launch more cases against Tymoshenko and were studying her possible involvement in a 1996 contract killing of a parliament deputy.
In 1994, NCIS called the Hells Angels "the fastest-growing organised-crime group in the world", and accused them of "involvement in drug-trafficking, contract killing, extortion, prostitution, money laundering and credit-card fraud".
District ethics rules required Aquino to refrain from any involvement in a Pearson contract for a year.
