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Great Events from History: Modern Scandals

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Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds




Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery




Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud




Emperor William II’s Homosexual “Circle” Scandalizes Germany




Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones Is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children




Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White




French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason




Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover




Elinor Glyn’s Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers




San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion




Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II




Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir




Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin




Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire




British Prime Minister’s Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading




Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office




Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public




Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution




Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match




British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks




Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances




Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Frauds




White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in “Black Sox” Scandal




U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation




Director Taylor’s Murder Ruins Mabel Normand’s Acting Career




Hindemith’s Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun’s Sexual Desires




Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter




British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors




Actor Wallace Reid’s Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry




U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud




U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s Aide Commits Suicide




U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases




Film Star Mabel Normand’s Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines




Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley Is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act




Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government




Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies After Weekend on Hearst’s Yacht




Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright




Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped




Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games




Mae West’s Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway




President Warren G. Harding’s Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir




Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria Swanson




Actor Is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian




Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit




Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience




Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry




Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery




Postmaster’s Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal




Surrealist Film L’Âge D’or Provokes French Rioting




“Scottsboro Boys” Are Railroaded Through Rape Trials




Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation




U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington




Film Star Jean Harlow’s Husband Is an Apparent Suicide




Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase




New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine




Stavisky’s Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government




General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel




Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee




Film Star Thelma Todd’s Death Cannot Be Explained




British Cabinet Member Resigns After Budget Information Leak




Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation




King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée




Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption




Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths




Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany




Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion




Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape




President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans




French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II




Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration




Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized




Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-five Girls




Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity




Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax




Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration




Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason




French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration




Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized




Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor




Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties




Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison




Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman’s Corruption




Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession




Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Adulterous Affair




Viet Minh Broadcasts French General’s Damaging Report




Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury




Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock




U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt




U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime




College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money




Belgium’s Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates




Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes




Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States




Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions




George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen




Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax




Scandal Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun’s Criminal Past




British Atrocities in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion Are Revealed




Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders




British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography




George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents Are Fakes




President Truman’s Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy




Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin




Actor Lana Turner’s Daughter Kills Turner’s Gangster Lover




President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling




Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud




Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show




President Kennedy’s Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime




U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry




FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks




Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments




Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud




Marilyn Monroe Sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”




British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying




West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices




Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust




John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government




Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad Is Sued for Paternity




Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists




Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections




Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help Are Ignored




President Lyndon Johnson’s Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex Sting




Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris




Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada




Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress




Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds




Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband




Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally




Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery




Senator Edward Kennedy’s Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne




Japanese Baseball Players Are Implicated in Game Fixing




American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed




United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered




Study of Anonymous Gay Sex Leads to Ethics Scandal




National Guardsmen Kill Protesting Kent State Students




Irish Politicians Are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons




New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers




Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment




Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs




Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon’s Resignation




Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud




Jane Fonda’s Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans




Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study




Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race




Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box Derby




Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace




Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank




Washington Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts




French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute’s House




Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market




Congressman Wilbur D. Mills’s Stripper Affair Leads to His Downfall




Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal




British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide




Honduras’s “Bananagate” Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive’s Suicide




Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their Clothes




Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer in Tonga




U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in Koreagate Scandal




Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials




Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion Vladimir Sabich




West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams




Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays’s Affair




Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit




Jimmy Carter Admits Committing Adultery in His Heart




Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke




German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot




Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights




Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks




Carter Cabinet Member Resigns over Ethics Violations




Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway




Actor Joan Crawford’s Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir, Mommie Dearest




Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism




Roman Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial




Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son




Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson




British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder




Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires




Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously




Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover




South African President B. J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal




Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company




French President Giscard d’Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe




Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering




Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties




Biographer Claims Actor Errol Flynn Was a Nazi Spy




Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers




Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover




Mobster’s Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players




President’s Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya




Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey’s Marital Problems




Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy




Bendix Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair




Rita Jenrette’s “Diary of a Mad Congresswife” Scandalizes Washington




Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature




Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony




Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection




Court Finds That Ford Ignored Pinto’s Safety Problems




Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted Church Funds




Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign




Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have Children Out of Wedlock




Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations




Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting




Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards Deny Being Gay




Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt




German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries




Congress Members Censured in House-Page Sex Scandal




McMartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case




Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home




British Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant




Jesse Jackson Calls New York City “Hymietown”




E. F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud




Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign




Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths




Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher’s Government




Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud




French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior




Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to Promoting Prostitution




West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany




Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna




Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud




Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use




Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi Past Is Revealed




Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud




Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan’s Administration




Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption




Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference




NCAA Imposes “Death Penalty” on Southern Methodist University Football




Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network




Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs




Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star




Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign




Black Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by Police Officers




Yale Scholar’s Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed




ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges




Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery




Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government




Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor




Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud




Scientists’ “Cold Fusion” Claims Cannot Be Verified




Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud




Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal




Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha




Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for Betting on Games




Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed




Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution




Prince Charles’s Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped




Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use




Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents




Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud




Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award




William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape




George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading




Comedian Pee-wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency




Justice Clarence Thomas’s Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal




Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow’s Adopted Daughter




Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion




Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey’s Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation




Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco




U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal




Princess Diana’s Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public




British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns over Romantic Affair




Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband’s Penis




British Cabinet Member Resigns After Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock




U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating




Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal




Double Murder Leads to Sensational O. J. Simpson Trial




Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O. J. Simpson Photo




Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on Rival




Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup




Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation




Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of NAACP Chief Benjamin Chavis




Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas’s Brother Is Arrested for Murder




Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct




Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal




Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption




Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article




Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case




Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey




Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall




Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is Arrested for Statutory Rape




Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud




Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard




Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims




Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash




Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual Assault




Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood




HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents




President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern




Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism




Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct




Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles’s Rampart Division




Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud




Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal




Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans




Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock




Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien




John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team




New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Extramarital Affair Is Revealed




Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges




American Scientists Are Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon




Ex-gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a Gay Bar




Gymnast Andreea Ra{gbreve}ducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs




Japanese Amateur Archaeologist’s “Discoveries” Are Proven Fakes




Sexual Abuse of Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair




Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering




Liverpool Children’s Hospital Collects Body Parts Without Authorization




CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians




Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears




Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying




Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape




Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found to Be Overage




Enron Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud




Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying His Résumé




Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism




Boston Globe Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests




Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism




French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics




Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory




Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns over Fraud Allegations




Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy




Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds in New Zealand




Immunologist Resigns After Being Accused of Falsifying Research




Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Faked His Research




British Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John Major




Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations




Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Presidential Campaign




E-mail Message Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults




U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to Have Spied on U.N. Officials




New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud




University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in Sex Scandal




Sexually Provocative Film The Brown Bunny Premieres at Cannes Film Festival




Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape




Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame




Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices




Newspaper Claims That Arnold Schwarzenegger Groped Women




Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web




Senator Strom Thurmond’s Biracial Daughter Is Revealed




Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation




Former United Way Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement




Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading Scandal




CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib




U.N. Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges




Blog “Outs” Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock




60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush’s Evasion of Wartime Duty




Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O’Reilly




Insurance Brokerage Marsh & McLennan Is Charged with Fraud




Iqbal Riza Resigns from the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal




German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for Money




Former Baseball Star Mark McGwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use




U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at Its Academy




Federal Agents Raid Congressman Randall Cunningham’s Home




Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts




Westar Energy Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company




Danish Newspaper’s Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests




Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone over Slave Labor




Spokane, Washington, Mayor Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal




British Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy




Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape




Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary




Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer




Scientist Is Indicted for Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells




Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food That Killed Thousands of American Pets




New York Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University




Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal




Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-Semitic Remarks




Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties




New Zealand Prime Minister’s Husband Is “Outed” as Gay




Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard Spied on Its Own Board




Congressman Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page




Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns




Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations




Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard




News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O. J. Simpson’s Book




Former Russian Security Service Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning




Subprime Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse




Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital




Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His Radio Show over Sexist and Racist Remarks




Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself




Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption




Senator David Vitter’s Name Is Found in D.C. Madam’s Address Book




Florida Politician Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer




University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification




Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dogfighting Ring




New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams




Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use




New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal




Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges




NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games




Financial Institutions and Markets Begin to Collapse