The investigation did find questionable expenditures.

"There are so many questionable expenditures going to people who shouldn't be getting this money," one official said.

Their report concludes that 30% of the exile groups who received USAID grants showed questionable expenditures.

In 1983-1984, the charity's value plummeted to $83 million as a result of Harry John's questionable expenditures and investments of its assets.

These were questionable expenditures because the meetings had little business value and could easily have been held in Detroit.

The audit, begun in October, said the "questionable expenditures" included $3.9 million to buy 12 lots near the site of a planned hockey arena in Newark's downtown.

Union leaders, like their corporate counterparts, may engage in insider-dealing, have conflicts of interest, or engage in questionable or embarrassing financial expenditures.

Chrys Rogers, a Virgin Islands spokeswoman, said that "questionable expenditures" had occurred in the project.

Several board members say the firm has turned up more than 2,000 questionable expenditures by Dr. Gibson.

Cowan played Herbert Wilson, a by-the-book "bean counter" who decried Brennan's questionable expenditure of company resources.