intentionally doing something either legally or morally wrong which one had no right
to do. It always involves dishonesty, illegality or knowingly exceeding authority
for improper reasons. Malfeasance is distinguished from "misfeasance," which is
committing a wrong or error by mistake, negligence or inadvertence, but not by intentional
wrongdoing. Example a city manager putting his indigent cousin on the city payroll
at a wage the manager knows is above that allowed and/or letting him file false
time cards is malfeasance; putting his able cousin on the payroll which, unknown
to him, is a violation of an anti-nepotism statute is misfeasance. This distinction
can apply to corporate officers, public officials, trustees and others cloaked with
responsibility.
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