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245 00 Great events from history.|pModern scandals /|ceditor,
Carl L. Bankston III.
246 3 Modern scandals
264 1 Pasadena, Calif. :|bSalem Press,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 1 online resource (3 volumes) :|billustrations.
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490 1 Great events from history
504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 volume 1. 1904-1972 -- 1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused
of Accepting Corporate Funds -- January 23, 1904: Senator
Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery -- December, 1904
: Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud --
1906-1909: Emperor William Ii's Homosexual "Circle"
Scandalizes Germany -- March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest
Jones is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children -
- June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect
Stanford White -- July 12, 1906: French Court Declares
Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason -- December 8, 1906:
Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover --
1907: Elinor Glyn's Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers --
June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty
of Extortion -- November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates
Congo Free State from King Leopold II -- 1909-1916: Dancer
Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir -- 1910
: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul
Langevin -- March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire -- January, 1913: British
Prime Minister's Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading
-- January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for
Profiting from His Office -- February 17-March 15, 1913:
Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public -- May 13,
1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting
Prostitution -- April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-
Manchester United Soccer Match -- May, 1915: British
Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and
Military Setbacks -- July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite
Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances -- 1919-1920: Ponzi
Schemes are Revealed as Investment Frauds -- September 21,
1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in
"Black Sox" Scandal -- July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes
Navy in Homosexuality Investigation -- February 1, 1922:
Director Taylor's Murder Ruins Mabel Normand's Acting
Career -- March 26, 1922: Hindemith's Opera Sancta Susanna
Depicts a Nun's Sexual Desires -- April 12, 1922: Film
Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter -- June
22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is
Accused of Selling Honors -- January 18, 1923: Actor
Wallace Reid's Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry --
March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau
Chief for Fraud -- May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty's Aide Commits Suicide -- October 22,
1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil
Leases -- January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand's
Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines -- May 12,
1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley is Convicted of
Violating the Volstead Act -- October 25, 1924: Forged
Communist Letter Brings Down British Government --
November 19, 1924: Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies after
Weekend on Hearst's Yacht -- July, 1925: Nosferatu is
Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright -- May-June, 1926
: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She was
Kidnapped -- December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker
are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games -- 1927: Mae West's
Play about Gays is Banned on Broadway -- 1927: President
Warren G. Harding's Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir --
Early 1928: Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria
Swanson -- 1928-1929: Actor is Suspected of Falsely
Claiming to Be an American Indian -- March 21, 1928:
Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically
and Mentally Unfit -- June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel's Un Chien
Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience -- November, 1929: Banque
Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry -- 1930:
Liberia is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into
Slavery -- May, 1930: Postmaster's Division of Airmail
Routes Creates a Scandal -- December 3, 1930: Surrealist
Film L'Âge d'or Provokes French Rioting -- March 30, 1931:
"Scottsboro Boys" are Railroaded through Rape Trials --
1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal
Regulation -- July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I
Veterans from Washington -- September 4, 1932: Film Star
Jean Harlow's Husband Is an Apparent Suicide -- January 20,
1933: Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase -
- March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports
of a Soviet Famine -- January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936
Stavisky's Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government --
May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper
Columnist for Libel -- July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces
Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee -- December 16,
1935: Film Star Thelma Todd's Death cannot be Explained --
May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns after Budget
Information Leak -- Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor's
Diary becomes a Public Sensation -- December 10, 1936:
King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée -
- March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco
Police Corruption -- September-October, 1937: Prescription
Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths -- October 11-
22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany -
- May 22, 1939: Kansas City's Boss Pendergast Pleads
Guilty to Income Tax Evasion -- February 6, 1942: Film
Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape.
505 0 February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment
of Japanese Americans -- April 22, 1942: French Prime
Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II --
December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested
for Nazi Collaboration -- January 14, 1943: Film Star
Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized -- February
23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-Five Girls
-- June 4, 1943: Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for
Paternity -- June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim
Responsibility for a Literary Hoax -- May 9, 1945:
Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi
Collaboration -- May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut
Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason -- August 14, 1945: French
War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration --
December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason
and Institutionalized -- November 23, 1946: Tennis Star
Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor --
Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended
for Gambling Ties -- July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis
Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison -- August
4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman's
Corruption -- August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is
Arrested for Drug Possession -- May 27, 1949: Actor Rita
Hayworth Marries Aly Khan after Adulterous Affair --
August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General's
Damaging Report -- January 21, 1950: Alger Hiss Is
Convicted of Perjury -- February 7, 1950: Swedish Film
Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock -- February
9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph Mccarthy Launches Communist
Witch Hunt -- May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins
Investigating Organized Crime -- January 17, 1951: College
Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money -- July
16, 1951: Belgium's Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates -
- November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns after
Accepting Bribes -- September 19, 1952: Actor Charles
Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States -- September 23,
1952: Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign
Contributions -- December 1, 1952: George Jorgensen
Becomes Christine Jorgensen -- November 21, 1953: Piltdown
Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax -- May, 1955: Scandal
Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun's Criminal Past --
Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion
are Revealed -- 1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes
Widespread Birth Disorders -- March 9, 1956: British
Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography
-- June, 1956: George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson
Documents are Fakes -- June 25, 1956: President Truman's
Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy --
December 12, 1957: Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries
Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin -- April 4, 1958: Actor Lana
Turner's Daughter Kills Turner's Gangster Lover --
September 22, 1958: President Eisenhower's Chief of Staff
Resigns for Influence Selling -- May, 1959: Teamsters
Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud -- November 2,
1959: Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on
Television Quiz Show -- February 7, 1960: President
Kennedy's Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime --
February 8, 1960: U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop
Music Industry -- March 14, 1960: Fcc Chairman John C.
Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks -- July,
1961: Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-
Authority Experiments -- March 29, 1962: Billie Sol Estes
Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud -- May 19, 1962: Marilyn
Monroe Sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" -- September
12, 1962: British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying --
October 26, 1962: West German Police Raid Der Spiegel
Magazine Offices -- February 23, 1963: Play Accuses Pope
Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust -- March 2-
September 25, 1963: John Profumo Affair Rocks British
Government -- July 2, 1963: Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad
Is Sued for Paternity -- August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu
Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists -- October
7, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns
over Crime Connections -- March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese
Dies as Her Cries for Help are Ignored -- October 7, 1964:
President Lyndon Johnson's Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex
Sting -- October 29, 1965: Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben
Barka Disappears in Paris -- March 4, 1966: Munsinger Sex
and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada -- March 1, 1967: Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress -- June 23,
1967: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for
Misappropriating Funds -- September 5, 1967: Socialite
Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband -- November 28,
1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock
Illegally -- May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas
Is Accused of Bribery -- July 18, 1969: Senator Edward
Kennedy's Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne -- Fall,
1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players are
Implicated in Game Fixing -- November 13, 1969: American
Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed --
December 30, 1969: United Mine Workers Leader Joseph
Yablonski Is Murdered -- 1970: Study of Anonymous Gay Sex
Leads to Ethics Scandal -- May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen
Kill Protesting Kent State Students -- May 28, 1970: Irish
Politicians are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons --
June 13, 1971: New York Times Publishes the Pentagon
Papers -- August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends
Stanford Prison Experiment -- January 28, 1972: Clifford
Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs -- June 17,
1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President
Nixon's Resignation -- June 22, 1972: Police Arrest
Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud -- July 8-22,
1972: Jane Fonda's Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many
Americans.
505 0 volume 2. 1972-1998 -- July 25, 1972: Newspaper Breaks
Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- July 31,
1972: Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential
Race -- August 19, 1973: Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box
Derby -- October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice
Presidency in Disgrace -- April 15, 1974: Kidnapped Heir
Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank -- May 14, 1974: Washington
Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts -- May
20, 1974: French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute's
House -- Summer, 1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is
Removed from the Market -- October 7, 1974: Congressman
Wilbur D. Mills's Stripper Affair Leads to His Downfall --
October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns
College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal -- November 20,
1974: British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide
-- February 3, 1975: Honduras's "Bananagate" Bribery
Scandal Leads to Executive's Suicide -- October 31, 1975:
Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their
Clothes -- 1976: Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer
in Tonga -- 1976-1977: U.S. Congress Members Are
Implicated in Koreagate Scandal -- February 4, 1976:
Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials --
March 21, 1976: Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion
Vladimir Sabich -- April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are
Caught Cheating on Exams -- May 23, 1976: Washington Post
Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays's Affair -- September 1,
1976: Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism
Lawsuit -- September, 1976: Jimmy Carter Admits Committing
Adultery in His Heart -- October 4, 1976: Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke --
November 9, 1976: German Generals Must Retire for
Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot -- January, 1977: Singer Anita
Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights --
February 25, 1977: Film Producer David Begelman Is Found
to Have Forged Checks -- September 21, 1977: Carter
Cabinet Member Resigns Over Ethics Violations -- September
23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway
-- 1978: Actor Joan Crawford's Daughter Publishes Damning
Memoir, Mommie Dearest -- 1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is
Sued for Plagiarism -- February 1, 1978: Roman Polanski
Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial -- June 27,
1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His
Own Son -- July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by
His Grandson -- August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy
Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder -- October 20,
1978: Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires --
January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
Dies Mysteriously -- April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is
Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover -- June 4, 1979:
South African President B.J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate
Scandal -- September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue
Chemical Company -- October 10, 1979: French President
Giscard d'Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe -- October
11, 1979: Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money
Laundering -- November 29, 1979, and January 31, 1983:
Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie
Mays for Casino Ties -- 1980: Biographer Claims Actor
Errol Flynn was a Nazi Spy -- February 2, 1980: Media
Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers -- March
10, 1980: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover --
April 27, 1980: Mobster's Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by
Boston College Basketball Players -- Late July, 1980:
President's Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid
Agent for Libya -- July 28, 1980: Magazine Reveals
Baseball Star Steve Garvey's Marital Problems -- September
3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with
Teenage Boy -- October 9, 1980: Bendix Executive Resigns
Amid Rumors of an Affair -- December 7, 1980: Rita
Jenrette's "Diary of a Mad Congresswife" Scandalizes
Washington -- April 15, 1981: Janet Cooke Admits
Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature -- April 28,
1981: Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony --
May 23, 1981: Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of
Crime Connection -- May 29, 1981: Court Finds That Ford
Ignored Pinto's Safety Problems -- September 10, 1981:
Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted
Church Funds -- May 11, 1982: Philippine President Marcos
Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign -- July 20, 1982
: Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have
Children Out of Wedlock -- August 6, 1982: Banco
Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations -- October
19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a
Drug Sting -- December, 1982: Julie Andrews and Blake
Edwards Deny Being Gay -- December 16, 1982: Congress
Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt -
- April 25, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler
Diaries -- July 20, 1983: Congress Members Censured in
House-Page Sex Scandal -- August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990:
Mcmartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case --
August 21, 1983: Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is
Assassinated on Return Home -- October 14, 1983: British
Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary
Becomes Pregnant -- January 25, 1984: Jesse Jackson Calls
New York City "Hymietown" -- May 2, 1984: E.F. Hutton
Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud -- July 23, 1984: Vanessa
Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign -- December
22, 1984: Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four
Black Youths -- 1985-1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime
Minister Thatcher's Government -- May 7, 1985: Banker Jake
Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud -- July 10, 1985: French
Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior -
- July 19, 1985: Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to
Promoting Prostitution -- August 19, 1985: West German
Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany --
September 17, 1985: Media Allege Canadian Officials
Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna -- October 23, 1985: Guru
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud -
- February 28, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
Suspends Players for Cocaine Use.
505 0 March 3, 1986: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt
Waldheim's Nazi Past Is Revealed -- April 22, 1986: Faith
Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud -- November 13,
1986-May 4, 1989: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints
Reagan's Administration -- January 12 and May 11, 1987:
Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police
Corruption -- January 22, 1987: Pennsylvania Politician
Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference -- February 25,
1987: NCAA Imposes "Death Penalty" on Southern Methodist
University Football -- March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns
as Head of PTL Television Network -- April 9, 1987: Bess
Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural
Affairs -- July 25, 1987: Novelist-Politician Jeffrey
Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star --
September 23, 1987: Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden's
Presidential Campaign -- November 28, 1987: Black Teenager
Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by Police Officers --
December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar's Wartime Anti-Semitic
Writings Are Revealed -- January 15, 1988: ZZZZ Best
Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges -- February
21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses
His Adultery -- June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading
Scandal Rocks Japanese Government -- July 18, 1988: Actor
Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor --
September 19, 1988: Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to
Medical Research Fraud -- March 23, 1989: Scientists'
"Cold Fusion" Claims Cannot be Verified -- March 29, 1989:
Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and
Fraud -- May 31, 1989: Speaker of the House Jim Wright
Resigns in Ethics Scandal -- August 10, 1989: Japanese
Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha -
- August 24, 1989: Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for
Betting on Games -- December 3, 1989: Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed -- December
15-25, 1989: Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the
Romanian Revolution -- December 18, 1989: Prince Charles's
Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is
Taped -- January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion
Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use -- March, 1990: Menendez
Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents --
August 27, 1990: Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-
Trading Fraud -- November 19, 1990: Lip-Synching Duo Milli
Vanilli Lose Grammy Award -- March 30, 1991: William
Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape -- April 5, 1991: George
W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading -- July 26,
1991: Comedian Pee-Wee Herman Is Arrested for Public
Indecency -- October 11-13, 1991: Justice Clarence
Thomas's Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal -- January
13, 1992: Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow's
Adopted Daughter -- April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona
Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion -- May 6, 1992:
Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey's Romantic Affair Leads to His
Resignation -- May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo
Buttafuoco -- June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns
in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal -- August
23, 1992: Princess Diana's Phone Conversation with Her
Lover Is Made Public -- September 24, 1992: British
Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns Over Romantic Affair -
- June 23, 1993: Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband's Penis
-- January 5, 1994: British Cabinet Member Resigns After
Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock -- April 28, 1994: U.S.
Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating -- June 1,
1994: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House
Post Office Scandal -- June 12, 1994: Double Murder Leads
to Sensational O.J. Simpson Trial -- June 24, 1994: Time
Magazine Cover Uses Altered O.J. Simpson Photo -- June 30,
1994: Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on
Rival -- July 1, 1994: Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is
Expelled from World Cup -- August 5, 1994: Kenneth Starr
Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation -- August 21,
1994: Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of Naacp Chief Benjamin
Chavis -- February 28, 1995: Former Mexican President
Carlos Salinas's Brother Is Arrested for Murder -- June 27,
1995: Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct --
November 18, 1995: Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney
Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal -- February 4, 1996: Whistle-
Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption -- Spring, 1996
: Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article --
August 16, 1996: Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled
Serial Murder Case -- November 3, 1996: Car Crash Reveals
Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey -- January, 1997:
Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to
Fall -- February 26, 1997: Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is
Arrested for Statutory Rape -- March 12, 1997: Prize-
Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud -- May 20,
1997: Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery
Reveals Double Standard -- June 25, 1997: Swiss Banks
Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims -- August
31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash -- September
22, 1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual
Assault -- November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner
Releases Report on Tainted Blood -- December 11, 1997: Hud
Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal
Agents -- January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies
Sexual Affair with a White House Intern.
505 0 volume 3. 1998-2008 -- April, 1998: Scottish Historian Is
Charged with Plagiarism -- April 7, 1998: Pop Singer
George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct -- May, 1998:
Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles's Rampart
Division -- May 11, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Is
Exposed as a Fraud -- December 23, 1998: Prominent
Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption
Scandal -- March 4, 1999: Quebec Offers Support for Abused
Duplessis Orphans -- May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse
Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock -- May 7, 1999-
March 2, 2001: Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chrétien -- January 28, 2000: John Spano Is
Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team --
May 2, 2000: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Extramarital
Affair is Revealed -- May 9, 2000: Former Louisiana
Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges
-- September, 2000: American Scientists Are Accused of
Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon -- September 19,
2000: Ex-Gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a
Gay Bar -- September 26, 2000: Gymnast Andreea Răducan
Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs -- November
5, 2000: Japanese Amateur Archaeologist'S "Discoveries"
are Proven Fakes -- December, 2000: Sexual Abuse of
Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair -- 2001:
Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud
and Money Laundering -- January 30, 2001: Liverpool
Children's Hospital Collects Body Parts Without
Authorization -- February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert
Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians -- April
30, 2001: Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears --
June 18, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is
Accused of Lying -- June 30, 2001: Korean Religious
Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape -- August 27,
2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found
to be Overage -- December 2, 2001: Enron Bankruptcy
Reveals Massive Financial Fraud -- December 14, 2001:
Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying his
Résumé -- January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is
Accused of Plagiarism -- January 6, 2002: Boston Globe
Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests --
January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is
Accused of Plagiarism -- February 11, 2002: French Judge
Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics
-- February 17, 2002: Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at
Georgia Crematory -- March 27, 2002: Georgia Basketball
Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns Over Fraud Allegations --
June 25, 2002: Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia
Communications to Declare Bankruptcy -- July, 2002:
Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn
Seeds in New Zealand -- August, 2002: Immunologist Resigns
After Being Accused of Falsifying Research -- September 25,
2002: Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön
Faked his Research -- September 28, 2002: British
Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John
Major -- October 25, 2002: Historian Michael A. Bellesiles
Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations -- December 5,
2002: Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond's 1948
Presidential Campaign -- January 2, 2003: E-Mail Message
Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults --
March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to
Have Spied on U.N. Officials -- April 29, 2003: New York
Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud -- May 3,
2003: University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in
Sex Scandal -- May 21, 2003: Sexually Provocative Film the
Brown Bunny Premieres at Cannes Film Festival -- July 1,
2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape --
July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of
CIA Operative Valerie Plame -- September 3, 2003: Mutual
Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices -
- October 2, 2003: Newspaper Claims That Arnold
Schwarzenegger Groped Women -- Early November, 2003: Paris
Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web -- December 17, 2003:
Senator Strom Thurmond's Biracial Daughter Is Revealed --
December 18, 2003: Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged
with Child Molestation -- March 4, 2004: Former United Way
Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement -- March 5,
2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading
Scandal -- April 28, 2004: CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused
and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib -- June 2, 2004: U.N.
Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed
Sexual Harassment Charges -- August 19, 2004: Blog "Outs"
Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock -- September 8, 2004:
60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush's Evasion of
Wartime Duty -- October 13, 2004: Television Producer
Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O'reilly -- October
14, 2004: Insurance Brokerage Marsh & Mclennan Is Charged
with Fraud -- January 15, 2005: Iqbal Riza Resigns from
the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal -- January 27,
2005: German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for
Money -- March 17, 2005: Former Baseball Star Mark Mcgwire
Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use -- June 22,
2005: U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at
Its Academy -- July 1, 2005: Federal Agents Raid
Congressman Randall Cunningham's Home -- Beginning August
29, 2005: Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina
Relief Efforts -- September 12, 2005: Westar Energy
Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company --
September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper's Prophet Muhammad
Cartoons Stir Violent Protests -- November 17, 2005:
Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone Over Slave
Labor -- December 6, 2005: Spokane, Washington, Mayor
Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal -- January 21, 2006: British
Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy -- March 14, 2006:
Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape -- April 26,
2006: Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with
Secretary -- May 4, 2006: Media Uncover Match-Fixing in
Italian Soccer -- May 12, 2006: Scientist Is Indicted for
Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells -- Summer, 2006
-March 16, 2007: Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food that Killed
Thousands of American Pets -- July 14, 2006: New York
Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University -- July
26, 2006: Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal --
July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-
Semitic Remarks -- August 12, 2006: Novelist Günter Grass
Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties -- September 17, 2006: New
Zealand Prime Minister's Husband Is "Outed" as Gay --
September 18, 2006: Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard
Spied on Its Own Board -- September 29, 2006: Congressman
Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page
-- October 22, 2006: Chilean Politicians Use Community
Funds for Personal Campaigns -- November 2, 2006:
Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax
Violations -- November 2, 2006: Male Escort Reveals Sexual
Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard -- November 20, 2006:
News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O.J. Simpson's Book --
November 23, 2006: Former Russian Security Service Officer
Dies from Radiation Poisoning -- Early 2007: Subprime
Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse -- February 18, 2007:
Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army
Hospital -- April 11, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His
Radio Show Over Sexist and Racist Remarks -- May 28, 2007:
Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself
-- June 4, 2007: Congressman William J. Jefferson Is
Indicted for Corruption -- July 9, 2007: Senator David
Vitter's Name Is Found in D.C.
505 0 Madam's Address Book -- July 11, 2007: Florida Politician
Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police
Officer -- July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires
Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification --
August 20, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty
to Financing a Dogfighting Ring -- September 13, 2007: New
England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on
Other Teams -- October 5, 2007: Olympic Champion Marion
Jones Admits Steroid Use -- March 12, 2008: New York
Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal --
June 13, 2008: Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child
Pornography Charges -- July 29, 2008: NBA Referee Tim
Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games --
September 7, 2008: Financial Institutions and Markets
Begin to Collapse.
520 Describes and analyzes 400 of the most important and most
publicized scandals in all fields of human endeavor that
have occurred throughout the world since the beginning of
the 20th century.
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650 0 Scandals|xHistory|y21st century.
650 0 Scandals|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Scandals|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st century.
650 0 History, Modern|y20th century|vAnecdotes.
650 0 History, Modern|y21st century|vAnecdotes.
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651 0 United States|xHistory|y20th century|vAnecdotes.
651 0 United States|xHistory|y21st century|vAnecdotes.
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