* 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.

For example, the August 12, 1974 Doonesbury strip awarded a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of the Watergate scandal.

Despite its widespread acclaim, it was not nominated for an Oscar, which created a small scandal regarding the nomination practices of the Academy.

However, the audience interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

The affair and its repercussions ( which included Clinton's impeachment ) became known as the Lewinsky scandal.

On 26 November, the Sex Pistols ' " Anarchy in the U. K ." came out — with its debut single the band succeeded in its goal of becoming a " national scandal ".

He composed his first two piano concertos around this time, the latter of which caused a scandal at its premiere ( 23 August 1913, Pavlovsk ).

Yet Adorno was no less moved by other public events: protesting the publication of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat with its film title, The Blue Angel ; declaring his sympathy with those who protested the scandal of big-game hunting and penning a defense of prostitutes.

The Unification Church has been noted for its political activities, especially its support for United States president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal, its support for anti-communism during the Cold War, and its ownership of various news media outlets through chinaNews World Communications, an international news media conglomerate which publishes The Washington Times newspaper in Washington, D. C., and newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, which tend to support conservatism.

* March 19 – The United Nations launches a political corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.

On June 15, 2002, Andersen was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron, resulting in the Enron scandal.

* 1893: The “ Bal de Quat ' zarts ” caused a scandal with its procession of a nude Cleopatra surrounded by young naked women.

Partly because of its Esperanto dialogue, and partly because of the scandal of one of the actors taking his own life and that of his girlfriend ( see below ), Taylor and Stevens were unable to find any distribution for the film except in France, where it premiered in November 1966.

In June the PCI gave its approval, and ultimately active support, to a campaign against President Giovanni Leone, accused of being involved in the Lockheed bribery scandal.

* 2009: Staff of The New York Times, " for its swift and sweeping coverage of a prostitution scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov.

Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence caused a scandal on its publication, and an immediate backlash.

The philosopher A. C. Grayling criticized the Royal Society for allowing its premises to be used in connection with the launch of Questions of Truth, describing it as a scandal, and arguing that Polkinghorne had exploited his fellowship there to publicize a " weak, casuistical and tendentious pamphlet.

Deep Throat was the name given for the anonymous source in the Washington Post investigation of U. S. President Nixon's 1972 Watergate scandal, and was used in the book All the President's Men and its 1976 film adaptation.

The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D. C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.

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

On March 21, 2012, Commissioner Goodell announced that, as a result of the bounty scandal and the NFL's investigation, Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, Gregg Williams indefinitely, and Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular season games.

Publicly traded Xybernaut tried forging alliances with companies such as IBM and Sony in order to make wearable computing widely available, but in 2005 their stock was delisted and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid financial scandal and federal investigation.

In some jurisdictions, in addition to indicting people for crimes, a grand jury may also issue reports on matters that they investigate apart from the criminal indictments that it produces, particularly when the grand jury investigation involves a public scandal.

Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Senate Majority Secretary and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance.

As part of the continuing investigation in 1974 – 75, Watergate scandal prosecutors offered companies that had given illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign lenient sentences if they came forward.

James drew national criticism for his remarks defending Joe Paterno, days after an investigation faulted the former football coach for his role in the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.

* In 2005, there was a scandal over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000, and accusations of conflict of interest In July 2006, the Charity Commission completed an investigation into this and censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers

In the early 1970s, in the best known episode in the recent history of The Post, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

However, due to a lack of vocations and private funds-partly due to the shocking abuse scandal caused by the order's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado ( who had at one time been admired by Blessed Pope John Paul II ), which resulted in a Vatican investigation and revision-the entire course of Seminary studies will now be taken at the Legionaries ' Seminary in Rome, Italy and the building will be sold.

Poland replaced long-time mayor Paul Jones who retired and moved to Florida after a scandal investigation regarding his practices as mayor.

A number of shortcomings in the Dutroux investigation caused widespread discontent in Belgium with the country's criminal justice system, and the ensuing scandal was one of the reasons for the reorganisation of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.

In 2003, a drug investigation known as Operation Everwhichway led to raids on government offices in the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in relation to suspect dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail to CN in a scandal which has since become known as Railgate and the trial of four former ministerial aides for influence peddling, breach of trust and accepting bribes.

Another controversy occurred during the bidding process when an undercover investigation by British television series Panorama revealed a corruption scandal associated with IOC member Ivan Slavkov and Olympic agents, who offered to deliver votes from IOC members to any 2012 Olympic bid in return for financial favours.

On 13 October 2009, he claimed on the BBC Today programme that the investigation by Sir Thomas Legg into the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal was marked by " retrospectivity ", as Sir Thomas had changed the rules on expenses after MPs ' claims had been submitted.

The AUF ( Workers ' Youth League ) membership scandal refers to the police investigation and subsequent court cases in Norway in early 1998 where four members of AUF stood accused of deliberately inflating membership numbers of their organization in order to receive increased government funding.

The election of Jeb Bush as governor of Florida was a major factor in stopping further investigation into the Riscorp scandal.

On 20 July, Kenny condemned the Vatican for its role in the scandal, stating that the Church's role in obstructing the investigation was a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of Ireland and that the scandal revealed " the dysfunction, disconnection and elitism that dominates the culture of the Vatican to this day.

After the truth of her marital status was revealed publicly, Lowe told reporters from the Times-Picayune that she would no longer aid the police in their investigation, as she suspected that it had been Chief Mooney who first informed the press of the scandal.

However Coogan later gave credit to the same newspaper for its investigation of the phone hacking scandal.

Because Starr regularly leaked tidbits to press about the lurid, lengthy sexual details that were mentioned in his report, he was criticized for using the scandal as a political maneuver and was charged for violating legal ethics by presenting information irrelevant to an investigation as evidence of legal wrongdoing.