That leaves just $10,000 to $20,000 for expenses ranging from phone service to paper clips.

The agency's executive director, Frank Gonzalez, told officials in the Comptroller's office that the former chairman of the group's board, Alfredo Mathew Jr., funneled more than $100,000 toward personal expenses ranging from baseball tickets to restaurant bills to campaign contributions.

The Housing Development Corporation has found itself under a great deal of scrutiny since Tuesday, when The Village Voice reported that its former president, Mr. Harding, had filed more than $250,000 in expenses ranging from stays in four-star hotels, fancy meals and expensive gifts for friends to his morning bagels.

He told The Rochester Times-Union in his only interview that he provided the F.B.I. with information that he said showed that Mr. Urlacher had used department funds for personal expenses ranging from theater tickets to dinner and bar bills and even college tuition for his children.

Previously, it was a business unit of administrative expenses ranging from office under the management of cultural and sports tourism in Thanh Hoa.

Richard Barr, a spokesman for Mr. Abrams, said yesterday that Mr. Dear, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat elected in 1982, broke laws governing charities when he used money from a foundation he helped create to pay for expenses ranging from calls from his car phone to a plane ticket for his wife.

The report showed that in his 14 months at Disney, Mr. Ovitz spent more than $6 million on expenses ranging from pens at $51 each to a party for 150 guests that cost several hundred thousand dollars.

Barry Knopf, a New Jersey personal-injury lawyer, said that he had seen settlements for injury-related medical expenses ranging from $1,800 into six figures.

The Federal prosecutors have sought to convince the jury that, aside from the extortion, Mrs. Helmsley evaded taxes by billing to Helmsley companies millions of dollars of personal expenses ranging from improvements to her Connecticut home, Dunnellen Hall, to underwear purchases.

These increasingly popular accounts provide a hefty tax break on medical-related expenses ranging from psychotherapy and orthodontia to contact lenses, contraceptives and artificial limbs.