impropriety

“Disclosing can mitigate the appearance of impropriety,” said Jeremy Fogel, the executive director of the University of California, Berkeley Judicial Institute and a former federal judge.

The court published its judgement later Tuesday, which detailed a series of alleged impropriety by an executive not named in the statement, but identified as the CEO.

The bank didn’t address its exposure to Tricolor, an auto lending company that collapsed in September amid allegations of fraud and accounting impropriety.

But allegations of corruption and other impropriety have surfaced repeatedly during Paxton’s career.

At a time when the Justice Department was investigating Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, the appearance of impropriety prompted a national scandal.