But according to federal officials, the review grew directly from concern about possible misspending.

The misspending included consultants' fees, home telephone costs and travel unrelated to the grant, she said.

Government officials said the misspending began in 1995 and involved buying electronics, furs and clothes.

Sun News frequently aired news pieces and published articles alleging misspending of taxpayer dollars.

Following the 1974's board's dismissal, a state audit found improper hiring, widespread misspending and millions of dollars in expenditures that could not be accounted for.

Ms. White, the HUD spokeswoman, said the limitation was necessary because of past misspending.

It was later learned that Russia's performance at the Olympics followed widespread misspending by sports officials and a dysfunctional bureaucracy, according to government auditors.

Bribery, kickbacks, theft, and misspending of public funds costs at least three percent of GDP.

Federal and state officials are investigating allegations of blatant misspending and voting fraud as the western Alabama county totters on the brink of fiscal collapse.

Mr. Brown argued that legislative programs will be crippled by an expected 38 percent cut to their budgets and that there has been "no misspending" of public dollars.

To the Editor: Children have been the biggest losers from the Angolan government's "lost" tax revenues and misspending of oil revenues (news article, May 14).

Here they worked within the Teamsters Rank and File Caucus, which was organized around the issue of alleged misspending of pension funds by union officials.

A Liberal member of Parliament, John Bryden, quit the party, adding to the swelling effects of a scandal over government misspending of public money.

He said in an interview that a tax break for domestic automobile purchases would encourage consumption instead of investment and would represent a misspending of scarce tax money.

But Mr. Silver and Mr. Bruno should do the right thing and vote to block an outrageous misspending of taxpayer funds.

When the use of the money for the center was discovered, Mr. Flake persuaded officials in the regional Housing and Urban Development office to forgive the misspending.

Cope attacked Marsh for plagiarism and financial mismanagement, and attacked Powell for his geological classification errors and misspending of government-allocated funds.

And they all laughed for it was known that Dr. Harold W" Smith did not approve of off-color jokes or misspending of a penny, much less political espionage.

She was criminally charged for offenses involving fraud, breach of trust, forgery and fabrication of false documents related to the misspending of public funds during her ten years in office.

A state audit of the Baldwin School District on Long Island found no misspending or wrongdoing, but urged the district to write policies for spending on meals, travel and cell phones.

The Squires government became embroiled in a scandal over allegations of corruption and misspending of government funds and Squires resigned in protest along with three other ministers in 1923.

Another journalist from the same paper, Juliya Kalinina, who published magazine articles about officers' abuse of power and the misspending of Chechnya reconstruction funds, received threats and her apartment was broken into.

Adam Glantz, a spokesman for Ms. Morales' office, confirmed that Ms. Morales sent a letter on Oct. 7, in response, he said "to allegations raised in the newspapers of possible misspending."

In a March complaint to the Labor Department, Mr. Bowen argued that he was dismissed, in violation of federal whistle-blower protection laws, for helping uncover the misspending by Mr. Coughlin.

Conservative Party spokesman Kory Teneycke indicated that the alleged misspending occurred before Brazeau became chief of the organization, and that Brazeau took steps to address the problem once he took over the leadership.

He's a man bent on misspending the capital of genius.

It is certainly possible to misspend your money and end up with a sound system compromised by a weak link.

The president has been accused of misspending public funds and undermining democracy.

Shrinking revenues have been further frittered away by misspending and corruption.

A spoiled rich kid could find plenty of more pleasant ways to misspend his youth, they thought.

Alternatively, misspend your youth on the many pool tables.

More important, how was it decided to misspend this huge amount of money on acoustics and rewiring?

A second possible point of agreement is that we should no longer give money to governments we know will steal or misspend it.

I wanted to get back to the stuff I misspend money on right now, not hypothetical future squanderings.

Apart from baseball, Clayton was preoccupied from 1949 to 1957 in misspending his youth.

He was accused of misspending government funds and a later investigation found that there was some truth to these accusations.

The party accused them of violating their impartiality and of misspending council funds.

You need to misspend your teen years, late adolescence and much of adulthood to learn tricks like that.'

Brodhead was acquitted of all charges except misspending the recruiting money.

HE rejects outright the idea that the city has enough money for education if it doesn't waste or misspend it.

He said Mr. Young adamantly denied misspending any school money entrusted to him.

There were plenty of kids out, riding in cars, shouting at one another, standing on street comers, and generally misspending their collective youth.

Mr. Liu said that the audit was begun because of reports about misspending that surfaced last fall.

Farmingdale is only the latest Long Island community to be shaken by allegations of misspending this spring.

Mr. White, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing, denied that he had been involved in misspending any money.

Misspending and mismanagement of Community money is something which regularly features in the press and media across the EU.

Rives and Starbuck were accused of misspending the royal treasury and departed.

POGO believes that this behavior leads to misspending on military weapons programs, placing tax dollars and national defense at risk.

A yearlong investigation by The New York Times found that the program has been misspending billions of dollars annually.

The Veterans Administration has elaborate procedures for trusteeships to make sure incompetent beneficiaries don't misspend their monthly payments.