malversation

• Ah! who can take a keener interest than I in my brother's happiness April 9, 1787 M. de Calonne was dismissed yesterday; his malversation was so proved that the king decided upon it; I do not fear to tell you the extreme joy I feel, which is shared by every one. —  Ruin of a Princess
• Two other former ARMM officials were also convicted namely Abbas Candao, executive secretary, for 43 counts; and Israel Haron, Cashier II, for 52 counts for charges of malversation which involves more than P21-million worth of public funds.
• A few months after the centre-left governor of Campania, Antonio Bassolino - formerly of the PCI - was indicted for fraud and malversation, the governor of Abruzzo, Ottavio Del Turco, another stalwart of the centre-left - formerly of the PSI - was also arrested, after a private-health tycoon confessed to having paid him six million euros in cash as protection money. —  London Review of Books
• He insisted upon restoring to their offices two clerks, named Powell and Bembridge, who had been removed and arraigned for malversation, and he insisted upon defending his indefensible action in the House of Commons with a fury that was as diverting to his opponents as it was distracting to his colleagues. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
• Let me know exactly what you are doing and intending to do about everything Footnote 28: C. Rabirius, whom Cicero defended in B.C. 63, when prosecuted by Cæsar for his share in the murder of Saturninus (B.C. 100). He lived, we know, in Campania, for his neighbours came to give evidence in his favour at the trial Footnote 29: M. Fonteius made a fortune in the province of Gaul beyond the Alps, of which he was proprætor, B.C. 77-74. In B.C. 69 he had been accused of malversation, and defended by Cicero. —  The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

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