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According to a settlement disclosed yesterday, the New York attorney general's office found that the leader of the World Jewish Congress, Israel Singer, violated his fiduciary responsibilities and barred him and a former executive from any financial role in the organization. The office of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer also identified shortcomings in the organization's financial controls, record keeping and fund-raising, but said it found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Mr. Spitzer began his inquiry after Isi Leibler, a former senior official at the congress, complained that an odd series of money transfers totaling $1.2 million from New York to a Swiss account and then to a London account demonstrated lax financial controls and suggested abuse of the organization's money by Mr. Singer.