Robert G. Stone, Jr., a figure with ties to US intelligence and to the Bushes, was head of the Harvard board of overseers that approved financial strategies.
Albert said he contacted Medicare to ask why the program's overseers would approve a $4,700 claim for a steak and a blood test.
European Union officials said on Friday that they hoped the law designating the European Central Bank as bank overseer would be approved by government ministers in October, then formally published by early November, to take effect a year later.
In a document on the site, he said that a top official at the federal Office of Thrift Supervision, IndyMac's overseer, directed and approved an action related to the S.E.C.'s allegations.
Others like Citigroup and Bank of America, which accepted multiple government rescues, needed a federal pay overseer to formally approve the awards for their 25 highest earners.
The bill, which has yet to be approved in the Senate, is another indication that nano overseers are growing impatient with the current pace of nano safety research and potential regulation.
Facing a Wednesday deadline to prevent Waterbury from sinking into bankruptcy, the Connecticut House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill this evening to create a board of overseers to take financial control of the city and alleviate its roughly $50 million in debt.
Under the arrangement approved by the mayor and governor, the five- member panel of overseers will quickly appoint an interim chief executive officer to manage the system.
In November, another Federal overseer disqualified Mr. Carey from running at all because, he said, Mr. Carey had approved schemes using almost $1 million in union money to help his campaign.
The budget route for trying to foil the initiative was doubly galling to city officials since Congress, as overseer of the capital, can veto most new District laws after they are approved.
Domingo Cavallo, once the all-powerful overseer of the Argentine economy and now, probably, the country's most unpopular public figure, was indicted today in Buenos Aires on charges that he approved more than $100 million in illegal arms sales during the 1990's.
