A five-month investigation of New York City nursing homes found that they routinely and illegally conceal bad inspection reports, the city's Public Advocate, Mark Green, said yesterday.

Then, Chiya Sasomsub was removed from office by another top court, for illegally concealing his wife's assets.

The charge accused the former Defense Secretary of having illegally concealed private diaries from Congress during its investigation of the Iran-contra affair.

Getting caught carrying concealed illegally was considered unlawful possession of a firearm and was an indictable offense.

"The edit was appropriate to correct the memo," he said, not to illegally conceal wrongdoing.

Mr. McDonald said the two men took excessively large commissions - in effect, lowering the yield received on the union deposits - and illegally concealed this from union trustees.

They said the accelerated pace often leads recruiters to overlook or illegally conceal psychological problems and police records that might make a recruit ineligible.

Shortly after SALT I was signed, the Russians complained that the United States was illegally concealing silos.

Prosecutors say that the two men illegally concealed big cash withdrawals by Mr. Clinton's 1990 campaign and that they used bank money to reimburse themselves for contributions.

Prosecutors charged that they illegally concealed more than $750,000 from the company's creditors.