They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.

There were allegations of defiling an altar, selling Church grain that had been meant to feed the poor for his own personal gain, and for suppressing dissent through violence and murder.

Impeachment proceedings were based on allegations that Clinton had lied about his relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in a sworn deposition in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

* The Iris Robinson scandal in which First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson stepped aside for six weeks in January 2010 following revelations of his wife ’ s involvement in an extramarital affair, her attempted suicide and allegations that he had failed to properly declare details of loans she had procured for her lover to develop a business venture.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

Echols denied allegations that he had chased a younger child with an ax, but did admit to attempting to remove a classmate's eyeball and while detained reportedly sucked blood from another boy's arm.

One of the first scandals to hit the new Scottish Parliament occurred when allegations that the lobbying arm of public relations company Beattie Media had privileged access to ministers were published, prompting Dewar to ask the standards committee to investigate the reports.

Animal protection magazine Animal People reported in March 1997 that Greenpeace France and Greenpeace International had sued Olivier Vermont and his publisher Albin Michel for issuing " defamatory statements, untruths, distortions of the facts and absurd allegations ".

Cleveland's supporters rehashed the old allegations that Blaine had corruptly influenced legislation in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and the Union Pacific Railway, later profiting on the sale of bonds he owned in both companies.

An autopsy determined, however, that Doria had died a virgin, refuting the allegations made against her.

In fact, Conley says, " The Producers were so happy with Gary's performance that they even called a " press conference " arranged by the movie's unit publicist, Liz Rodriguez, held by her and the " Mansion " producer team from historical Hollywood & Highland to officially exonerate Gary of any allegations that he had been fired and praised Gary's performance in the upcoming movie.

The Kennedy administration suspended aid in 1961, after allegations that Duvalier had pocketed aid money and intended to use a Marine Corps mission to strengthen the Macoutes.

American and Israeli counter-terrorism officials claim that Hezbollah has ( or had ) links to Al Qaeda, although Hezbollah's leaders deny these allegations.

On 7 April 2000, Delhi police revealed they had a recording of a conversation between Cronje and Sanjay Chawla, a representative of an Indian betting syndicate, over match-fixing allegations.

There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby.

Soon after the death of his patron Damasus ( 10 December 384 ), Jerome was forced by them to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.

In June 1939, Franco-German relations were strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two French newspaper editors to print pro-German articles.

Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was " convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had ".

Clinton previously had been confronted with allegations of sexual misconduct during his time as Governor of Arkansas, including a civil lawsuit filed against Clinton by former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, alleging that he had sexually harassed her.

* 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term " rock and roll " and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

Any tax bill also will revive allegations that some of his followers have been using their administration affiliations imprudently to profit themselves.

There has also been controversy about the role of pharmaceutical companies in marketing and promoting antipsychotics, including allegations of downplaying or covering up adverse effects, expanding the number of conditions or illegally promoting off-label usage ; influencing drug trials ( or their publication ) to try to show that the expensive and profitable newer atypicals were superior to the older cheaper typicals that were out of patent.

Clinton has been subject to several allegations of sexual misconduct, though he has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers.

Historically, allegations of cannibalism were used by the colonial powers to justify the enslavement of what were seen as primitive peoples ; cannibalism has been said to test the bounds of cultural relativism as it challenges anthropologists " to define what is or is not beyond the pale of acceptable human behavior ".

Despite allegations by Roman sources of adultery and divorce, the marriage appears to have been happy.

The allegations such as " A recent phenomenon in India has been the rise of Hindu fundamentalism that has led to political mobilization against Muslims.

In November 2007 two anti-government rallies occurred, precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the election system that heavily favoured the ruling political party, National Front, which has been in power since Malaya achieved independence.

It was precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the Malaysian election system that heavily favor the ruling political party, Barisan Nasional, which has been in power since Malaysia achieved its independence in 1957.

Of the administrative structures established under the 1898 Local Government Act, the only type to have been completely abolished was the Rural District, which was rendered void in the early years of the Irish Free State amidst widespread allegations of corruption.

It should be noted that when allegations of a potential inside deal occur, all parties that may have been involved are at risk of being found guilty.

" Nevertheless there have been serious allegations of human rights violations, most recently while conducting counter-insurgency operations in the Mt Elgon area and also in the district of Mandera central.

Kenya ’ s military, like many government institutions in the country, has been tainted by corruption allegations.

The development and growth of internet infrastructure has been particularly slow in Lebanon due to Corruption and allegations of a sector Monopoly.

There have been allegations that Dr. Waheed was involved in planning the coup, though Dr. Waheed has denied involvement.

In recent years, there have been some high profile allegations of senior IRA figures having been British informers.

In February 2007, Abdul told Us Weekly that she had never been drunk or used illegal drugs and called the allegations " lies.

Bob Heironimus claims to have been the figure depicted in the Patterson film, and his allegations are detailed in Long's book.

The circumstances in which Railtrack had been put into administration were highly controversial, with allegations in Parliament on 24 October 2005 that the company had not been insolvent at the time ( 7 October 2001 ) and therefore that the administration order had been wrongly obtained.

* May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

Many character issues were raised during the campaign, including allegations that Clinton had dodged the draft during the Vietnam War, and had used marijuana, which Clinton claimed he had pretended to smoke, but " didn't inhale.

The allegations in Sacheverell's report on the examination of Coleman prompted the country party to demand the exclusion of James, Duke of York, from the succession to the throne, the first suggestion of the famous Exclusion Bill being made by Sacheverell on 4 November 1678 in a debate --" the greatest that ever was in Parliament ," as it was pronounced by contemporaries — raised by Lord Russell with the object of removing the duke from the King's Council.

Although she called the allegations in the lawsuit " unfounded ", others suggested that her resignation raised serious concerns regarding personnel and management practices at the Department of Homeland Security.

However, the allegations were raised again in 1996, and this time the Bundestag voted to revoke his immunity and proceed with an investigation.

A series of allegations about the organization's accounting practices and " unusual " money transfers, was raised in 2004 by Isi Leibler, then a vice-president of the WJC.

When allegations of cheating were first raised, by Stempel and others, Van Doren denied any wrongdoing, saying " It's silly and distressing to think that people don't have more faith in quiz shows.

In February 2008 a policewoman raised allegations that earlier that year she was sexually assaulted by Gonsalves.

" Olson claimed that the allegations raised against him and the other named public officials in all nine issues published between September 24, 1927, and November 19, 1927, as well as the paper's overall anti-Semitic tone, constituted a violation of this law.

When the film was first released, several Australian animal rights organizations raised allegations of animal cruelty during filming and called for a boycott.

The Bulletin magazine first publicly raised allegations of plagiarism in June 2000.

The Sydney Morning Herald coverage emphasized that Kevin Rudd was under pressure over " allegations surrounding his past meetings with disgraced former Western Australian premier Brian Burke " ; and that Thomson " had no choice but to resign, especially since Prime Minister John Howard raised the bar a week ago by sacking Ian Campbell for doing nothing more than meeting, in his then-capacity as heritage minister, a delegation which included Burke.

No evidence was presented that grey-import vehicles ' safety performance differed significantly from that of US models, and there have been allegations of improper lobbying, but the issue has never been raised in court.

** BQ: Gilles Duceppe angrily rejects allegations raised by Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew that the Bloc " likes to take pleasure in its homogeneity " and does not represent multicultural Quebec.

After the second AGP Government's reign under Prafulla Kumar Mahanta came to an end and Congress regained power, numerous allegations were raised against him related to the corruption during his tenure, government's involvement in secret killings, and Mahanta's overall inactive leadership.

Further controversy mired the building project, with budget over-runs, allegations of conflicts of interest by those connected to both Highland Council and the construction company and questions raised about the use of public money.

While the terms of the inquiry were initially narrow, restricted only to the specific allegations raised against specific persons named in the media over a period of just five years, Fitzgerald used his moral authority to lever the inquiry into a position of being able to inquire into any relevant matter.

In 1998, an investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation raised allegations that a separate aboriginal-issues party called Independent Native Voice ( INV ) had been set up by Progressive Conservative organizers to take votes from the New Democratic Party in marginal constituencies.

The appointment of Frattini raised concerns by the British Lib-Dem Sarah Ludford, due to the allegations of Frattini's belonging to freemasonry raised by Buttiglione himself and denied by Frattini Frattini is also nominated at one of the five places of Vice President of the European Commission.

A Sharia court led by Jamal al-Fadl was convened in Osama bin Laden's compound, and Azzam was found guilty in absentia of spreading allegations against Khadr and ordered to turn the money back over to the charity for which it had been raised, though no further sentence was imposed.

He raised allegations of Garda corruption in County Donegal.

" On February 22, 2010, following an investigation stemming from allegations raised in Rosenberg's article, UM announced that the NCAA has found probable cause that the school committed five major violations, corroborating some but not all of the allegations in Rosenberg's article.

She then changed her position following corruption allegations raised by EC official Paul van Buitenen to call for Jacques Santer ( then President of the European Commission ) to react promptly or be sacked.