Although DiBiagio has said the memo was taken out of context, he was told after it was publicized that he could bring no public corruption cases without high-level approval.
The talk was hosted by a campus club, the College Republicans; it was publicized on Facebook, and was open to the public.
"I believe that the information was altered as it was publicized," Mr. Vargas said.
He had probably read about the Brooks Fund in the "Saturday Review," where it was publicized.
"Someone made a copy and it was publicized," he said, and corrected ballots were sent out.
It was publicized last week by an American Coptic Christian activist, Morris Sadek, well known here for his scathing attacks on Islam.
One of Mr. Spitzer's mentors, the former Manhattan district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, learned about the federal investigation months before it was publicized.
Not surprisingly, given who Ms. Cryer was, and the circumstances that inspired her venture, it was publicized in newspaper and magazine articles.
The centerpiece, which came after a " 'Lars and the Real Girl' meets the slump buster" theme, blew up in the players' faces after it was publicized.
Jarratt's chronicle of the American Methodist revival is the primary account of that development; he sent his account to John Wesley, and it was publicized in the Journal (1771 1816) of Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop in North America.
The deaths occurred amid a wave of anti-American protests convulsing the Middle East, inspired by an inflammatory anti-Islamic video, "The Innocence of Muslims," that has spread on the Internet in recent days since it was publicized in Egypt.
