In the aftermath of the election, a crisis and political scandal erupted after Socialist Party deputy Giacomo Matteoti was kidnapped and murdered by a Fascist.

In October 1962, a scandal erupted when police arrested five Der Spiegel journalists, charging them with high treason for publishing a memo detailing weaknesses in the West German armed forces.

The incident erupted into scandal when media reported that a number of the players had performed sex acts and that prostitutes had been flown in.

The three-party ( i. e. six plus some purely Flemish and Walloon parties ) political systems got disturbed by the Green parties ( the Dutch-speaking Agalev, now Groen !, and the French-speaking Ecolo ) in the 1980s which took a lot of influence after the Marc Dutroux Scandal and the " dioxin affair ", a food scandal ( chickens containing dioxin levels far above the maximum allowed ) which would not have had any major repercussions, had it not erupted just days before the elections.

On November 29, 1864, more than a decade before Colorado became a state and long before Kiowa County was formed, a massacre of Native Americans, a group of old men, women, and children, occurred on Sand Creek that initially was greeted as a victory in the Colorado War against hostile Indians ; within months, Congressional inquiries revealed the truth, and a national scandal erupted.

In 2008, a scandal erupted when it was discovered by the Peruvian press, led by important figures such as Jaime Bayly, that some of the shows provided by Laura Bozzo were fake and therefore did not show the true society of Peru.

A scandal erupted in 1973, when Young's son Christopher Lewis, then 29, was charged with child molestation and filming and distributing child pornography, along with 13 other men whom the police labeled a " chicken flick ring.

A scandal erupted when 200 Congressmen received these X stickers.

When Jean Chrétien stepped down as Prime Minister, to be succeeded by Paul Martin, the Bloc's fortunes improved markedly, particularly after the sponsorship scandal erupted.

However, Fard's activities were brought to wider public notice after a major scandal erupted involving an apparent ritual murder in November 1932, reportedly committed by one of Fard's early followers, Robert Karriem.

* Since July, 2012, searching the word " plagiator " ( Romanian for " plagiarist / cheater ") returns the personal page of Victor Ponta, prime minister of Romania, accused of plagiarizing his PhD thesis, and various news websites which provide information about the scandal that erupted around the politician.

Some weeks before the 1999 elections a food scandal erupted, and both governing parties lost much of their support.

A public scandal erupted and continued until Osgood's estranged husband Samuel Stillman Osgood stepped in and threatened to sue Ellet.

Started on March 7, 2003, Marović's term in office as President of Serbia-Montenegro was marked by his apologies to Croatian and Bosnian citizens as well as his involvement in the military equipment scandal that erupted in September 2005.

Davis expressed interest in being President Barack Obama's replacement in the U. S. Senate, and Illinois Governor in late 2008 before his own major scandal erupted.

A scandal erupted when it became public that he had an adulterous affair with a CIA employee during the 1980s.

The primary scandal erupted in the final weeks of 1989, when after failing to procure short-term financing, the company executives decided to embark upon a fraudulent course of action to bring in the financing unwittingly from their customers.

In Australia, a minor literary scandal erupted in 1997 when it emerged that award-winning author Helen Darville plagiarised this list for her regular column in Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper, which led to her being fired.

Another scandal erupted after the ruling when the judges of the Nanterre court alleged that their offices and computers had been searched.

When a scandal erupted over the discovery of microphones in the U. S. Consulate in November 1992, Gašparovič was asked by Mečiar to head a commission to investigate the background of the affair, but the results were inconclusive.

The scandal which erupted when the Zinoviev Letter was publicized, rekindling suspicions against the Soviet government and provoking the fall of MacDonald's cabinet, brought an end to all further talks ; during and after the incident, Rakovsky repeatedly cited evidence that the Letter was a forgery.

A political scandal erupted in 1912 after Campbell publicly revealed malpractices of the Johor Bahru Prison.

A scandal erupted in April 1908 after Elsie filed for divorce, alleging adultery with Agnes O ' Brien Ruíz, the wife of the Cuban attaché in Washington, D. C ..

Since 2004, separate scandals have erupted in prominent sports leagues in Portugal, Germany ( Bundesliga scandal ), Brazil ( Brazilian football match-fixing scandal ) and the United States ( see Tim Donaghy ), all of which concerned referees who fixed matches for gamblers.

A notable " Gretna " marriage was the second marriage in 1826 of Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the young heiress Ellen Turner, called the Shrigley abduction ( his first marriage was also to an heiress, but the parents wanted to avoid a public scandal ).

This was interrupted, however, in 1826 as a result of the scandal surrounding his brothers, Edward Gibbon and William Wakefield and also his stepmother.

Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.

* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.

The Labour Party returned the donation when the scandal came to light.

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

The film generated a lot of speculation and interest when news leaked that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal.

Eiffel's reputation was badly damaged when he was implicated in the financial and political scandal which followed.

He also stood behind Joan Bennett and insisted on her as his co-star in We're No Angels when a scandal made her persona non grata with Jack Warner.

The investigation was impeded when large volumes of documents relating to the scandal were destroyed or withheld from investigators by Reagan administration officials.

* 2002 – A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al-Qaeda leader.

* 2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

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.

These books carry a sharp polemic, hardly surprising when it is recalled that his opponents charged Wycliffe with blasphemy and scandal, pride and heresy.

In 1920, Judge Landis was a leading candidate when American League and National League team owners, embarrassed by the Black Sox scandal and other instances of players throwing games, sought someone to rule over baseball.

Percy Redwood created a scandal in New Zealand in 1909 when he was found to be Amy Bock, who had married a woman from Port Molyneaux ; newspapers argued whether it was a sign of insanity or an inherent character flaw.

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In a time when party discipline was not as strong as it is today, once Macdonald's culpability in the scandal became known he could no longer expect to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.

During the research for his dual biography of Scott and Roald Amundsen, polar historian Roland Huntford investigated a possible scandal in Scott's early naval career, related to the period 1889 – 90 when Scott was a lieutenant on.

" Relations were strained further when Feroze challenged corruption within the Congress leadership over the Haridas Mundhra scandal.

In March 2010, a scandal arose when several women claimed to have had affairs with James during his marriage to Bullock.

For a brief time Ryan is the National Security Advisor, but when Vice President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after a sex scandal, President Roger Durling taps him for the job.

The second occurred 10 months later when Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal and Ford assumed the Presidency.

The scandal broke in 1872 when the New York Sun published correspondence between Henry S. McComb and Ames detailing the scheme.