And on the tarmac of Burlington airport, Sanders blamed voting laws and "irregularities" in New York for his loss, and criticized the state's closed primary system that locked out nearly 3 million independent and unaffiliated voters from casting ballots in the primary.
An investigation carried out for the health insurer by a law firm reported irregularities in granting stock options (worth some $1 billion) to Mr McGuire stemming from contract negotiations in 1999.
Japanese regulators have been conducting surprise inspections for more than a year, looking for violations of securities laws and other irregularities as part of a pledge to review the operations of every financial firm doing business in the country.
The State of Law block alleged widespread irregularities and accused Mr Allawi's Iraqiya of bribing election officials.Meanwhile, Mr Maliki's front was said to be inching towards a deal with the Iraqi National Alliance, a more zealously sectarian Shia Islamist block.
Late Sunday, Intrade said it would close all outstanding bets after the company had discovered potential "financial irregularities" under Irish law.
In the presidential election in Florida, there has never been a successful legal challenge of the results based on allegations of ballot irregularities, state election law experts said.
Mr. Rapoport provided financial support to Democratic officeholders in trouble, including Webster L. Hubbell, a Justice Department official in the Clinton administration who left under a cloud over billing irregularities at his law firm.
A tough law-enforcement response to accounting irregularities, of course, is not new.
It listed 14 "infringements," including foot-dragging by the administration on the implementation of a variety of laws, as well as financial irregularities.
The deteriorating relationship between the judges and the Islamists dates back to last year and the Supreme Constitutional Court's ruling that the newly elected and Islamist-dominated Parliament should be dissolved because of irregularities in the election law.
