The coercive pressure of the withholding threat, Mr. Wasserstrom said in a letter to Mr. Kerry, could force changes in what Mr. Wasserstrom described as an organizational culture in which "U.N. personnel who are aware of misconduct, corruption and fraud are likely to remain silent".
Some believe the secrecy allows unreliable papers to remain in circulation, and could enable researchers to continue to raise funds from donors and investors who may not be aware of misconduct findings.
The sub-committee also found that the Giants' board, chief executive and chief operating officer had not been aware of the misconduct and the club's governance could not be faulted.
The referrals were made as a precaution to ensure that federal authorities were aware of potential misconduct the panel came across during its yearlong investigation, according to the person, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the referrals were intended to be confidential.
The rector of Aloisiuskolleg, a high school in Bad Godesberg, an affluent neighborhood in the former capital of Bonn where diplomats and leading politicians lived, resigned Monday over accusations that he was aware of sexual misconduct by teachers at the school.
The university panel said there is no evidence that Schatten falsified anything or that he was aware of the misconduct.
The report claims that no high-up executives were aware of his misconduct.
The bank said, however, that no current or past member of its board of directors has been found to have been involved or even to have been aware of the misconduct.
After Ajamie had submitted his report to the board, he began hearing from people who'd contact him anonymously, saying they were aware of sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein.
In an interview, Mr. Hevesi said he was aware of sporadic police misconduct in the city before the Diallo shooting, but "didn't get" that it was "much more systematic in certain communities in the city -- the stop-and-frisk, the harassments and so on".
