He was also accused with wrongly receiving $590,000 in unauthorized payments for attending the local's board meetings.

The most serious charge is the unauthorized payment of benefits, meaning giving union benefits, like health insurance, to people who are not in the union.

The company has said that $32 million in unauthorized payments were made to Lord Black and several top associates.

He had accused his boss of making unauthorized payments and other financial misconduct.

By then, the special committee had discovered unauthorized payments of $32.15 million to Lord Black and his lieutenants.

Pentagon officials have denied making any unauthorized payments and McDonnell Douglas has denied receiving any.

FNN launched an internal investigation and discovered what it called evidence of unauthorized payments that Bolen made to himself.

Conrad Black resigns as Chairman after an internal inquiry alleges that Black had received more than $7 million in unauthorized payments of company funds.

She said that the Government had in the past brought cases against union funds for unauthorized payments of legal fees but that she was unaware of any pending cases.

Conrad M. Black, the press baron accused of directing millions of dollars in unauthorized payments to himself and others, has found a new way to infuriate his opponents.