Leadership of this organisation tarnished his reputation.
His time with the organization was tarnished by one serious misstep: his recommendation that Dolan hire Thomas as team president in December 2003.
FIFA has become much more open about the match-fixing issue since the re-election in June of its president, Sepp Blatter, who has promised to overhaul the organization that has been tarnished by a variety of damaging scandals.
Revelations about sexual abuse by scout leaders, which have increasingly emerged in recent years, with some victims and parents saying the organization shielded predators, have tarnished the group's reputation as being always protective of youth.
Mr. Lloyd's murder and the subsequent revelation that Mr. Hernandez is being investigated in a separate double homicide have tarnished the Patriots organization, which holds itself up as a model franchise, and delivered the latest black eye for the National Football League, a league that has long coped with players who commit violent crimes.
Although the Westchester Red Cross had little to do with the decisions on the 9/11 funds, many people working for the chapter feels the branch has been tarnished by the national organization's trouble.
But Governor Taft, 62, now finds himself at odds with conservatives, unpopular with voters and sitting atop a party organization that is riven by feuds and tarnished by scandal.
Gupta's actions tarnished the reputations of many organizations, among them McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Procter & Gamble.
Today, personal branding is such an entrenched value that news organizations routinely weigh in on how affairs have "tarnished" various brands: Obama's, A-Rod's, Paula Deen's.
But just like any other organization, the reputation of a government agency can be tarnished by the actions of only a few.
