In 1997, after becoming involved in a political scandal known as the Cash-for-questions affair, Hamilton was defeated and left politics.

The " Cash-for-questions affair " was a political scandal of the 1990s in the United Kingdom.

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* Michael Brown's involvement with a then-underage man in 1994, and his subsequent implication in the Cash-for-questions affair.

He investigated the Cash-for-questions affair.

Since their coming to power in 1997, controversies affecting the Labour Government such as David Blunkett's affair with Spectator editor Kimberly Fortier and financial scandals involving senior ministers and officials shifted the focus to sleaze within the Labour Party.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

* Icarus affair, an incident involving the 1867 murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki

This incidentally served the purposes of the Italian State and gave rise to the myth of the Breach of Porta Pia, in reality a tame affair involving a cannonade at close range that demolished without much fuss a 1600-year-old wall in poor repair.

In 1904 Stein began this fictional account of a scandalous three-person romantic affair involving a dean ( M. Carey Thomas ) and a faculty member ( Mary Gwinn ) from Bryn Mawr College and a Harvard graduate ( Alfred Hodder ).

The first two episodes of the season saw the affair between Gillespie and DeLong intensify only to be interrupted by a crack war waged on Sparta involving Eugene.

In 1974, the Blessing of the Fleet became a community affair involving all of Ashtabula's religious and harbor community.

** Tampa affair, an Australian political controversy and diplomatic dispute involving the MV Tampa in 2001

For the British government the good news from Moscow was doubly welcome for drawing attention away from the Profumo affair, a sexual scandal involving a senior minister, which had left Macmillan's administration looking vulnerable.

The Haijby affair was a political affair in Sweden in the 1950s, involving the conviction and imprisonment of Kurt Haijby for blackmail of King Gustaf V.

Jeeves becomes embroiled in a complicated affair involving ' fake ' bookies, stolen gems, a wealthy American widow and a big game hunter, but, as in all Jeeves novels, the imperturbable valet succeeds in resolving matters to the satisfaction of all parties.

* Eaton affair, an 1831 U. S. scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet

The following week, a US $ 250 million affair involving Eni, the government-controlled national energy company, was revealed.

The Dershowitz – Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict in 2005.

The Doctors ' plot ( Russian language: дело врачей affair, врачи-вредители or врачи-убийцы ) in 1952 / 53 was the most dramatic anti-Jewish episode in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's regime, involving the " unmasking " of a group of prominent Moscow doctors, predominantly Jews, as conspiratorial assassins of Soviet leaders.

This was to cover the fact that Munio, dissolute and violent, made an earlier appearance in an affair involving a monastery of Dominican nuns in the small provincial city of his hometown of Zamora, which had occasioned a canonical visitation by the Bishop of Zamora in 1279.

It is later revealed that Devlin and Mary Ann have a shared history involving Mary Ann's wife Clarabelle ( Angel Tompkins ), who previously had an affair with Devlin.

L ' Auto and therefore L ' Équipe owed its life to a 19th-century French scandal involving soldier Alfred Dreyfus-the Dreyfus affair.

Appointed to Évreux, he made himself known through an affair involving illegal vehicle registration cards by naming the police director as the culprit.

The marriage ceremony was an extremely formal affair, involving several prolonged and sequential ceremonies.

The Petticoat affair ( also known as the Eaton affair or the Eaton malaria ) was an 1830 – 1831 U. S. scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives.

With his last breath, Hickok expresses a dying wish involving a widow he was having an affair with.

Polly romanced Declan Byrne but when her brother Gavin Arnold ( Neil Roberts ) arrived in town, she resumed her illicit love affair with him.

He is perhaps best known for the investigative reporting into Conservative MPs, including the perjurious Jonathan Aitken and cash-for-questions affair involving Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, begun while he was editor of The Guardian.

The real-life counterpart to this character wrote a self-published chapbook about the affair entitled " Blowing My Hero " under the pseudonym Amber O ' Neil.

While his wife, Beth ( Anne Archer ), and daughter, Ellen ( Ellen Hamilton Latzen ), are out of town for the weekend, he has a passionate affair with Alex.

A former Granada journalist Jonathan Boyd Hunt investigated the " Cash-For-Questions " affair and concluded in his book, Trial By Conspiracy, that the case against Hamilton was untrue.

The film tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton.

Criticisms of the work focused on Mahan's handling of Nelson's love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton, but it remained the standard biography until the appearance of Carola Oman's Nelson fifty years later.

* The 1941 film That Hamilton Woman told the story of Emma's affair with Horatio Nelson.

* In the 1980s sitcom Blackadder the Third, the show's antihero, Mr. E. Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson ), repeatedly mocks the affair between Nelson and Lady Hamilton.

Carl Hamilton was created by author and journalist Jan Guillou after he had been sentenced to prison for espionage – for exposing a secret spy organization inside the Swedish military ( see the IB affair ).

Hale had four children, Linda Hale Bucklin, Hamilton " Hap " Hale, Hilary Hale Spencer and Prentis Cobb " Rusty " Hale III, with his first wife, Marialice Pat King Hale, who was aware of the longstanding affair between her husband and the well-known Hollywood socialite Denise Minnelli and committed suicide in March 1969, hours after telling a close friend that she knew her 33-year marriage to the father of her children was over.

When Laura is seduced by the much older David Hamilton, in a plot to get revenge on her mother Lesley Webber ( Denise Alexander ), Scott breaks up with Laura and begins an affair with former prostitute, and now nurse, Bobbie Spencer ( Jackie Zeman ).

Article in the Smithsonian Magazine, by Michael Ryan, touching on the Nelson-Davison relationship, in the context of Nelson's adulterous affair with Emma Hamilton ( PDF )

Hamilton denied any financial wrongdoing but admitted to an affair with the wife Maria and paying hush money to her husband.

It focuses upon Emma Hamilton, her marriage to Sir William Hamilton, the scandal relating to her affair with Lord Nelson, her abandonment, and her descent into poverty.

Hamilton came under pressure from the press to explain his role in the affair, with suspicions being raised that he may have been in prior contact with Hess.

The Duke was also known for his affair with the Countess of Derby, born Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of the 6th Duke of Hamilton and the beauty Elizabeth Gunning.

As a close friend of the Admiral he acted as an intermediary when Nelson's marriage to his wife, Frances Nelson fell apart due in large part to his affair with Emma Hamilton.

A famous person known to have been victimized by the scheme was Alexander Hamilton, whose adulterous affair with Maria Reynolds was used by her husband to extort money and information from him.