GONZALES:... about improper conduct.
Ignore the comments about improper hygiene.
As part of that plea agreement, the company said it had paid more than $2.3 million in illegal kickbacks to patient recruiters from 2003 to 2008, and as a result some of its hospitals received nearly $16 million in improper payments from Medicare and Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program for the poor.
In the federal lawsuit filed against Adams and other executives, Mary Anne Den Bok alleges that Adams was paid nearly $1.2 million in "improper compensation" in 2005 and 2006 and that some of Charles' master recordings may have been sold, an action people close to the artist say would directly contradict his wishes.
In a recently completed audit, federal investigators concluded that school districts around the state outside New York City had received about $174 million in improper payments, of nearly $362 million given to them from September 1993 to June 2001.
Dareus was penalized for accepting nearly $2,000 in improper benefits from an agent on two trips to Miami.
ALABAMA STAR PENALIZED Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus has been declared ineligible for two games for accepting nearly $2,000 in improper benefits during two trips to Miami.
Vassar College has been fined nearly $100,000 for the improper disposal of what federal inspectors called hazardous wastes, as well as the poor training of campus personnel in labeling, keeping track of and handling such wastes.
Ever since the labor board proposed the rule in December 2010, business groups have asserted that the move exceeded the board's authority and was an improper imposition on nearly six million employers, most of them small businesses.
One of the three audits revealed that the State Department of Health made at least $53 million in improper payments for nearly 26,000 people who had improperly been assigned two Medicaid identification numbers by local social service agencies, apparently in error.
