Improperly awarded incentive stock options could lead to even more tax trouble.

Mr. Thompson has charged that the contract was awarded improperly.

The officials also improperly awarded themselves payments of $250 each time they attended an executive board meeting, the review board said.

A big chunk, however, was a $70,000 assignment that the mayor and other city officials now say was improperly awarded.

Dr. Siegel said there was no hint that the contracts had been improperly awarded.

The two have been sparring over $104 million in welfare-to-work contracts that the comptroller's office has said were improperly awarded to a Virginia company.

He was charged with improperly awarding $400m worth of public works contracts, mafia conspiracy, fraud and embezzlement.

Surrogate Lambert has repeatedly been accused of improperly awarding excessive fees to attorneys, especially friends of hers.

But it was no secret that Mr. Piccoli was pushed out in 1986 after city auditors found that he had improperly awarded lucrative contracts.

A court-appointed administrator of the Teamsters had ruled that McCarthy had improperly awarded the printing contract but did not seek charges against him.