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Although later reversed in a pyrrhic Supreme Court victory, the impact of the scandal combined with the findings of criminal complicity ultimately destroyed the firm.
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.
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.
Alcock also said that being the government's point man for the sponsorship scandal did not help his electoral prospects, though he ultimately defended his government's actions.
The scandal ultimately resulted in the suspension of several judges and officials, and Le Gougne's vote was discarded, leaving the long program a tie.
The scandal ultimately resulted in the suspension of several judges and officials.
The House banking scandal ultimately involved more than 450 representatives, most of whom did not break any laws.
The company ultimately dismantled these systems and replaced them with bus systems in what became known as the ' Great American streetcar scandal ' and formed the inspiration for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Gerda Munsinger ( September 10, 1929 – November 24, 1998 ) was an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy ( ultimately unproven ) who was the centre of the Munsinger Affair political scandal in Canada.
The next day Wyoming Democratic Senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution which set in motion the Senate investigation that would ultimately expose this so-called Teapot Dome scandal, involving an illegal financial relationship between Harding administration Secretary of the Interior Fall and a subsidiary of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation.
Torrijos and the PRD were ultimately hampered by the corruption scandals of the previous administration, as well as a scandal in which La Prensa reported that two members of his campaign had been bribed by Mobil to sell a former US military base.
Gould ultimately triumphed in this struggle, but was forced to relinquish control in 1872 – 73, due to unfavourable public opinion following his involvement in the 1869 gold-rigging scandal and to his loss of $ 1 million of Erie Railroad stock to the British con-man Lord Gordon-Gordon.
Corngate is one of many scandals suffixed with "- gate ", ultimately originating from the Watergate scandal in U. S. politics.
A major factor in this move was pressure from the landowners to remove a threat to the system ( notably, Constantin Garoflid filed a complaint with the king, while Mihalache caused scandal when he publicly assured peasants that the monarch's opposition was ultimately irrelevant.
Clinton's defense counsel argued that Clinton's grand jury testimony had too many inconsistencies to be a clear case of perjury, that the investigation and impeachment had been tainted by partisan political bias, that the President's approval rating of more than 70 percent indicated that his ability to govern had not been impaired by the scandal, and that the Managers had ultimately presented " an unsubstantiated, circumstantial case that does not meet the constitutional standard to remove the President from office.
Secretary of the Navy Lawrence Garrett ultimately resigned and Kelso was forced to retire two months early amid the scandal and aviator complaints that he had failed to ensure due process for accused personnel.
Kapranos wanted to shoot the video in the corridors of Bearsden Academy and approached the school who, while initially receptive, ultimately rejected the idea, as the idea of schoolboys in their early 30s was too reminiscent of the recent scandal involving Brian MacKinnon.
His work antagonized food suppliers, and he was ultimately discredited by a scandal over his alleged mutilation of Royal Institution library books.
However, Logan is tricked by a reporter who knew of the love child and acted as Charlie to get the insider's scoop for a Vanity Fair article ; the story is ultimately dropped when Logan makes a pre-emptory appearance on Larry King Live and announces the scandal.
At the end of October, Veja published a new story claiming that the Workers ' Party had received illegal campaign funds from Cuba — threatening to re-intensify the scandal once again, though that was not ultimately the case.
MassMutual owns Tremont Capital Management, a feeder fund that fed investors ' money to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and ultimately lost $ 3. 3 billion dollars in the resulting scandal.
The resulting scandal cost the airline its government subsidy, and ultimately resulted in the carrier's collapse.
Tommy Howatt, a writer for the local scandal sheet Tatler, infiltrates the minister's church and proceeds to play one side against the other, eventually framing Brock by revealing to the authorities his plan to raid the brothels, but ultimately saving him by siding with him at his trial.

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That year, Newcomb pointed out to a Johns Hopkins trustee that Peirce, while a Hopkins employee, had lived and traveled with a woman to whom he was not married ; the ensuing scandal led to his dismissal in January 1884.
The scandal that followed Mesmer's attempt to treat the blindness of an 18-year-old musician, Maria Theresia Paradis, led him to leave Vienna in 1777.
A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry.
A scandal on SHADES led to the closure of Micronet, as described in Indra Sinha's net-memoir, The Cybergypsies.
Several cities of Germany obtained the " privileges of the jubilee ", as indulgences were called, but the preaching of indulgences led to abuses and scandal.
A corruption scandal discovered late in his first term involved misdeeds around the expansion of the Beauharnois Canal in Quebec ; this led to extensive inquiries and eventually a Royal Commission, which exposed the Beauharnois Scandal.
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.
Given the climate of the 1950s this led to a huge scandal in India as well as Hollywood.
Garfield took full advantage of the opportunity to blame the fluctuating greenback for sowing the seeds of greed and speculation that led to the scandal.
In the US, the scandal led to passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and nearly led to the ailing corporation's downfall ( it was already struggling due to the poor sales of the L-1011 airliner ).
The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U. S. President.
Licio Gelli's downfall started with the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, which led to a 1981 police raid on his villa and the discovery of the P2 covert lodge.
He was a key figure in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal, which led to a grand jury indictment.
* Ismat Chughtai wrote an Urdu-language story entitled " Lihaf " (" The Quilt ", 1941 ) that led to scandal and an unsuccessful attempt at legal prosecution of the author because it was about a lesbian relationship.
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.
In spite of his disfigurement ( or perhaps because of it ), he won the heart of the lady to whom his colonel was attached ; this led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and Mirabeau was imprisoned in the Ile de Ré.
The scandal, now known as the Profumo Affair, led to Profumo's resignation and withdrawal from politics, and it may have helped to topple the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan.
After Wilson lost a leadership challenge in the wake of a personal scandal in a bitter three-way race, the party was led by Gordon Campbell, who became Leader of the Opposition after Wilson's convention defeat.
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.
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.
") and sought to dismiss Dr. Masson from his job at the Archives, which led to bilateral legal action and a well-publicized scandal.
Although aimed at Nonconformists, when the Conventical Act was passed, the Jews led by their new rabbi, Jacob Sasportas, took their anxieties to Charles II, who told them, ‘ laughing and spitting ’, not to worry ; later the Privy Council put it in writing that Jews could ‘ promise themselves the effects of the same favour as formerly they have had, so long as they demean themselves peaceably and quietly, with due obedience to His Majesty ’ s laws and without scandal to his government ’.

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