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corruption and scandal
Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.
During the 1990s, evidence of Moi's involvement in human rights abuses and corruption ( Goldenberg scandal ) was uncovered.
In 1993, allegations of corruption against Akayev's closest political associates blossomed into a major scandal.
In 1993, allegations of corruption against Akayev's closest political associates blossomed into a major scandal.
A May 1966 police corruption scandal gave Stroessner a convenient way to dismiss Ynsfrán in November.
A last case of corruption was the 2008 Peru oil scandal.
By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.
" Relations were strained further when Feroze challenged corruption within the Congress leadership over the Haridas Mundhra scandal.
Scandals and corruption, including the notorious Teapot Dome scandal, eventually pervaded his administration ; one of his own cabinet and several of his appointees were eventually tried, convicted, and sent to prison for bribery or defrauding the federal government.
Early in his second term, another corruption scandal, this time in the Department of Customs, was revealed, which led to more support for the Conservatives and Progressives, and the possibility that King would be forced to resign, if he lost sufficient support in the Commons.
Shortly after his re-election to the mayoralty in 1949, O ' Dwyer was confronted with a police corruption scandal uncovered by the Kings County District Attorney, Miles McDonald.
** Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
* March 19 – The United Nations launches a political corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.
However, in the 1990s, Milan was badly affected by Tangentopoli, a major political scandal centered on public works bribes, in which several local and national politicians and businessmen were tried for alleged corruption.
This scandal, which would have destroyed his career if the whole truth had come out at the time, was a precursor to the whiff of corruption ( e. g. the sale of honours ) that later surrounded Lloyd George's premiership.
In 1721 a committee investigated the scandal, finding that there was corruption on the part of many in the Cabinet.
Shortly after Impellitteri's succession, the Brooklyn District Attorney arrested bookie Harry Gross and launched a corruption scandal that ultimately caused nearly 500 police officers of all ranks to resign, retire, or be fired.
During a corruption scandal he was forced to resign.
The Joint Development Authority administering the offshore oil zone itself was rocked by a corruption scandal in 2004.
During the years that the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Hauts-de-Seine received national attention as the result of a corruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds provided for the department's housing projects.
Political corruption in Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County became a major regional news story following nationwide publication of stories about the Kids for Cash scandal, a kickback scheme involving two local judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, charged with enriching themselves by investing in juvenile detention facilities to which they subsequently sentenced children under their judicial power.
Media speculation was that the choice of Turin was due to the IOC's desire to retaliate against Switzerland for the whistleblower role played by IOC member Marc Hodler in the revelation of the 2002 corruption scandal.
Samaranch set up a commission to investigate the corruption and introduced reform of the bid process as a result of the scandal.

corruption and discovered
Some investigators claimed to have discovered extensive embezzlement, corruption, and money laundering by Aristide.
A committee was created to inquire into Walpole's ministry but no substantial evidence of wrongdoing or corruption was discovered.
Tringham has discovered that " Durbeyfield " is a corruption of " D ' Urberville ", the surname of a noble Norman family, now extinct.
It was later discovered by the Peruvian Judiciary that the explosion had been planned and carried out by the National Intelligence Service, run by Vladimiro Montesinos, who had already been indicted on corruption and bribery charges.
Actually, the origins of this bathing establishment go back to the Middle Ages when it was known as the Bagno della Crociata ( so named either after a Crusader who supposedly discovered the spring or from a corruption of the Italian word for crutch ).
The Emperor also discovered outrageous machinations and corruption in the Russian treasury.
Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs.
Some other scandals were also discovered including the corruption of architects who were members of the Board.
The program ran from 1996 until 2004, when broad corruption was discovered in its operations and the program was discontinued.
On his return to Russia in 1712, Peter discovered that Menshikov had turned a blind eye to wholesale corruption in his own governor-generalship.
He purchased a controlling interest in the newspaper The Spectator, to stop Diana Colville from running an expose on his corruption ( including the dumping of toxic chemicals into a river in Salem ) and he discovered a love of the business.
In an effort of reform and to clean up corruption, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Benjamin Bristow, as U. S. Secretary of Treasury in 1874, who immediately discovered millions of dollars were being depleted from the U. S. Treasury.
In " New Moon Rising ", Riley discovered the extent of the Initiative's corruption and chose to leave it.
One of the film's recurring themes is the difficulty combating corporate corruption, due to a corporate culture in which lower level people feel obligated literally to die rather than allow their superiors ' activities to be discovered.
By the end of Final Fantasy X, the Yevon religion was effectively disbanded once evidence of its corruption was discovered, and its remaining priests volunteered the truth.
The atoll is thought to have been discovered around 1570 by Portuguese sailors, which is why it is also known under its Portuguese name Baxio Predassa ( a corruption of Baixo Predassa ).
Widespread allegations of official corruption in the NSW police force and the NSW government had been highlighted by a string of highly publicised scandals, notably the so-called " Arantz Affair ", in which police computer expert Phillip Arantz was sacked from the NSW Police Service for leaking information to the media, after he discovered that the NSW police had systematically under-reporting crime statistics over a period of years.
Near the end of the season, Conlon attempts an attorney general campaign which is derailed as police corruption is discovered, resulting in several prosecutions.

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