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

She replied that if his Highness's presents were accounted to her as peculation, she had been guilty.
They have no compunction about robbing their government by peculation, but treachery is not their mtier.
A striking instance of their peculation appeared in a circumstance that was connected with the British Embassy.
Mismanagement and peculation had been as rife there as in Bengal.
Specific charges of peculation and wrong management are frequent.
Bribery was the instrument of government, and peculation its reward.
Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
But this reign of peculation and oppression was fast drawing to a close.
That gave Filner a clean slate legally for the trip and ended all the speculation about peculation.
Torreno is the ablest man, but he has injured his character by peculation.

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