The articles included uncorroborated allegations of inappropriate personal and professional activity.

Legal experts here had said that such uncorroborated allegations rarely lead to convictions.

Such are the elusive, uncorroborated allegations being pursued by several Congressional committees that are venturing outside the territory mapped out by the Iran-contra committees.

In the Menendez case, at issue was the weight juries should place on uncorroborated allegations of abuse (the juries - one per brother - couldn't make up their minds).

Despite the uncorroborated allegations of financial irregularities, the rumour turned out to be false, and Madonna continues to attend Kabbalah Centre events.

While it prohibits the release of police reports that include uncorroborated allegations of criminal activity, it does not distinguish between "the average Joe and elected officials," he said.

At those hearings, Senator John McCain [R-AZ] dismissed these undocumented and uncorroborated allegations made by Corso as being extremely difficult to believe.

At the same time, though, Monsignor Placa's rapid removal also raises questions about whether the sexual abuse scandal may be forcing church officials to jump prematurely in forcing out priests accused of uncorroborated, hard-to-prove allegations from long ago.

Instead it assumed that because uncorroborated allegations had been made, the offences were committed, and, treating allegations as facts, it declared that 214 incidents had now been "formally recorded" as crimes.