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.

In the television series Boss, a multiepisode story arc involves the main character, Mayor of Chicago Tom Kane ( Kelsey Grammer ), being damaged by a scandal in which he authorized the dumping of carcinogenic chemicals that soak into the groundwater of Bensenville.

It found their picket near the funeral is protected speech because it involves " matters of public concern, including the issues of homosexuals in the military, the sex-abuse scandal within the Catholic Church, and the political and moral conduct of the United States and its citizens ", and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family.

The first storyline in which Rerun is featured involves a still pre-verbal Rerun becoming a player on Charlie Brown's baseball team and being involved in a gambling scandal ( he bet a nickel with Snoopy that Charlie Brown's team would win ) that ends in the team having to forfeit one of their rare victories.

A scandal is a widely publicized incident that involves allegations of wrongdoing, disgrace, or moral outrage.

He has been in the news regarding his alleged role in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal in Germany, which damaged the political legacy of former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and involves the present Federal Minister of Finance of Germany Wolfgang Schäuble as well as the Airbus affair in Canada, which was linked through allegation to former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney.

The nature of this sheltering may be occasioned by a " public fall from grace " or a scandal that involves public opprobrium.

The 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal involves the use of a telemarketing firm hired by that state's Republican Party ( NHGOP ) for election tampering.

In 2005, a Pentagon analyst pled guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal.

After passing the judicial examination, he was appointed a municipal judge, but soon became embroiled in a scandal when he publicly denounced local politicians for using official vehicles for private purposes.

The Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal ( also known as the AIPAC espionage scandal ) refers to Lawrence Franklin's scandal of passing classified documents regarding United States policy towards Iran to Israel through American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC ).

According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.

However the information did not remain secret for long, and Aspasia was soon forced to leave Greece to escape the scandal.

W. Mark Felt an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director, acted on conscience to provide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information that resulted in the Watergate scandal.

Gair discovered that the AWU had gained its information about the scandal from a senior public official, Vivian Creighton.

A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about possibly-immoral sexual activities being made public.

A scandal involving Vanhanen's second cabinet began rolling in May 2008, after the leader of the Centre Party's parliamentary group Timo Kalli said publicly that he would not reveal information about his campaign finances, because such disclosure was not required.

When this information was leaked to the public in Britain and France, their governments were mired in scandal and the British Foreign Secretary, Samuel Hoare, was forced to resign.

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.

* 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.

Ehrlichman created " The Plumbers ", the group at the center of the Watergate scandal, and appointed his assistant Egil Krogh to oversee its covert operations, focusing on stopping leaks of confidential information after the release of The Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Due to lack of further information, Peru's president, Alberto Fujimori, put a momentary end to the scandal.

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.

According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles on a scandal which played a leading role in introducing the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public.

In public statements following the disclosure of his identity, Felt's family called him an " American hero ", stating that he leaked information about the Watergate scandal to the Washington Post for moral and patriotic reasons.

After that it is remarkably difficult to find biographical information about him, not least because he had a rather inglorious departure from Die Zeit: He had to leave, after Marion Dönhoff had provoked a scandal by enforcing a decision concerning the political line of the paper.

In 2009, Michael Bolton, defence attorney in the Basi-Virk trial, alleged that Clark had participated in the scandal by providing government information to lobbyist Erik Bornmann.

During the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, " Deep Throat " ( W. Mark Felt ) passed information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the middle of the night in an underground parking garage at 1401 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn.

During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning phone tap and collect more information, five of the burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.

A U. S. government indictment alleges that Pollack provided information to former American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC ) employees Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman during the AIPAC espionage scandal.

In 2005, a public scandal erupted ( dubbed the Journalistenskandal, Journalists scandal ) over revelations that the BND had in the mid 1990s placed under surveillance a number of German journalists, in an attempt to discover the source of information leaks from the BND.

Yet another scandal came to light in early 2006, when it was alleged that the BND supplied targeting information to American forces to facilitate the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The creation of Deep Throat was inspired by the historical Deep Throat, Mark Felt, who leaked information on the Watergate scandal, and by Donald Sutherland's character X in the film JFK.

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

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U. S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

He vehemently asserted his own authority as Patriarch over that of the Pope in Rome, and would have made the most of any scandal of that time regarding the Papacy ; but he never mentions the story once in any of his voluminous writings.

When President Bill Clinton attempted to use executive privilege regarding the Lewinsky scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in Clinton v. Jones,, that the privilege also could not be used in civil suits.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

* Mrs. White ( Madeline Kahn ), an alleged black widow, who was drawn in to avoid a scandal regarding the mysterious death of her nuclear physicist husband.

The expedition against the Sioux was originally scheduled to leave Fort Abraham Lincoln on April 6, 1876, but on March 15, Custer was summoned to Washington to testify at Congressional hearings regarding the scandal involving U. S. Secretary of War William W. Belknap and President Grant's brother Orville.

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

* Roger L. Williams, Manners and Murders in the world of Louis-Napoleon ( Seattle, London: University of Washington, c1975 ), p. 93-101 ( regarding Favre's family life, the scandal, and the legal repercussions ).

The scandal raised a number of questions regarding legal issues and netizen's online rights that went far beyond the usual music discussion.

Former Mayor McCabe's lack of action regarding the 2011 Chief Devlin scandal was roundly criticized in a December 2011 Times-Journal editorial.

The department was embroiled in a scandal at the time regarding blood products contaminated with Hepatitis C virus, caused by the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Service Board.

Stories of the Black Sox scandal have usually included Comiskey as a villain, focusing in particular on his intentions regarding a clause in Cicotte's contract that would have paid Cicotte an additional $ 10, 000 bonus for winning 30 games.

President George W. Bush first asserted executive privilege to deny disclosure of sought details regarding former Attorney General Janet Reno, the scandal involving Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) misuse of organized-crime informants James J. Bulger and Stephen Flemmi in Boston, and Justice Department deliberations about President Bill Clinton's fundraising tactics, in December 2001.

In early September 2010, allegations resurfaced regarding the phone tapping scandal which saw tabloid newspaper journalists jailed in 2009 for intercepting the mobile phone messages of major public figures in Britain.

The corruption scandal first gained widespread media attention in the autumn of 2003, with Systembolaget issuing its first press release regarding the preliminary investigations on 7 November 2003.

* A nepotism scandal regarding Sierra Nevada Corporation's hire of Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons as a consultant.

There was some controversy regarding his appointment in the midst of the Iraq Dossier scandal.

As a member of the former, he became a leading critic of the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater scandal, and during 1995 and 1996 chaired the hearings-heavy Senate Special Whitewater Committee.

* Whistleblowers Canada: Information regarding the inadequacy of legislation introduced in response to the scandal

Mirko Šarović resigned in 2003 due to his implication in the scandal regarding the selling of arms to Iraq.

Her campaign faced questions regarding her involvement in the sale of BC Rail due to her cabinet position and family connection to people " mentioned prominently in court documents, including search warrants ", with opposition members stating that she " wants to shut down the public's questions about the scandal ".

" In this followup album, Anderson presents five, distinct, " parallel possibilities " regarding Bostock's adulthood, now forty years after his childhood poetry scandal:

Although he presented no evidence regarding the 1919 scandal, he claimed that in 1917 he had collected money from other White Sox players to give to the Detroit Tigers so the Tigers would intentionally lose some games.