Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful. |
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If found guilty of corruption or peculation, they are imprisoned for three years in a bagnio. |
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Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector. |
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They looked about them and observed that politicians are, like most men, weak and corrupt, much given to hypocrisy and peculation. |
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He obtained his discharge, brought an accusation of peculation against some of his former officers, and in 1792 retired, first to France then to America, to avoid prosecution. |
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She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars. |
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Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff. |
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