All appointees to public authorities are required to file such disclosures annually.

Indeed, this week the scrutiny will intensify as the company approaches a deadline to file financial disclosures.

The delisting is the result of Adelphia's failure to file required financial disclosures for the 2001 fiscal year on time.

Brown countered that since Bruce Foods is a privately held company, they are not required to file financial disclosures.

The limited disclosure filed by Berkshire this week shows that it has invested $181.9 million so far in an account whose contents will not be disclosed.

The Governor also acted today to tighten rules issued in 1990 requiring employees to file yearly disclosures of assets and sources of income.

It has done so without so far filing disclosures on spending or donors, previously arguing it does not need to do so.

Beginning in 1979, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 required federal officials, including the justices, to file annual disclosures of their income and assets.

Its report was based on disclosures filed with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House under lobbying-disclosure regulations.

This testimony seemed to damage the Government's contention that Mr. Biaggi had filed false tax returns and financial disclosures.