Still, the investigators found $92.5 million in questionable payments from 1988 to 1993.

His panel came upon questionable payments of public money to cheese-makers.

A failed land deal and a questionable $225,000 payment haunt the acting governor.

"It shows a pattern of questionable payments, not an isolated instance."

Apparently, other members of the clown's family have also received questionable payments.

A former director of the state oil monopoly known as Pemex, he is charged with approving questionable payments to a labor union.

In addition to the questionable $6.9 million payment, auditors found $3.7 million that they said was not spent according to federal rules.

But the committee later suspected that more than $200 million in questionable payments had been made, and it filed suit last week to recover the money.

Lawyers representing other parties in the bankruptcy said yesterday their investigations had turned up questionable payments made by the company.

The efforts to secure oil overseas also led to some questionable payments.