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"That inquiry – conducted by two former judges and a senior accountant – found that Jack Warner had committed fraud and misappropriated the funds – in other words he had stolen the money from Concacaf … We asked Concacaf to give our money back because it wasn't used for the purpose we intended, and were advised by Fifa to wait until the inquiries were complete".
"If there were going to be allegations as to whether community money had gone astray and been misappropriated , then the appropriate time to look at that is after the AFP has done what it is going to do," Reid said.
Mr Crosby, who was in charge of 59 state-run prisons with around 89,000 inmates (plus another 70 or so smaller detention places), had become the subject of federal and state investigations alleging that he misappropriated state funds and property and was involved in steroid trafficking.To clean up the mess, Mr Bush hired James McDonough as the new FDC head and gave him a free hand.
Normally, when an investor makes money through advance knowledge of a takeover bid, the courts consider the profits to have been misappropriated from the bidder, since the investor's buying will have pushed up the price of the target.
On October 13th the BCCI was reported to have filed a criminal complaint against him in Chennai, alleging that 4.7 billion rupees had been "misappropriated " on his watch.
The Gosaibis estimate that he "misappropriated " about $9.2 billion in total.Mr Sanea has strongly and repeatedly denied these allegations.
The left distrusted that distinction and the right misappropriated it, while philosophers continue to pick it over.
See articleIn the latest twist in Taiwan's continuing corruption scandals, prosecutors interviewed Ma Ying-jeou, the mayor of Taipei and likely future presidential candidate for the opposition Kuomintang, over allegations that he had misappropriated funds.
Aid can be misappropriated to prop up the regime that caused the disaster in the first place, as is happening in North Korea and Zimbabwe.
But the military regimes that have misruled the country for most of that time either misappropriated the money, or squandered it.Once a "big-government" man, Mr Obasanjo has said repeatedly since coming to office that he wants to make the private sector the motor of the new economy.
Again, Mr Gilmartin thinks the fears are overdone, not least because Merck is careful to distinguish the drugs intended for different markets and keeps a close eye on how the drugs are delivered, to ensure they are not misappropriated by export-minded entrepreneurs before they get to patients.
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The term "misappropriated " primarily functions as a verb in the past participle form , often used in passive constructions. This usage is supported by Ludwig, which provides numerous examples where it describes an action of illegally or improperly taking something.
Expression frequency: Very common
