Table of Contents for Great Events from History: Modern Scandals
Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds
Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery
Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud
Emperor William II’s Homosexual “Circle” Scandalizes Germany
Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones Is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children
Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White
French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason
Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover
Elinor Glyn’s Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers
San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion
Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II
Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir
Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin
Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
British Prime Minister’s Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading
Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office
Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public
Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution
Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match
British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks
Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances
Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Frauds
White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in “Black Sox” Scandal
U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation
Director Taylor’s Murder Ruins Mabel Normand’s Acting Career
Hindemith’s Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun’s Sexual Desires
Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors
Actor Wallace Reid’s Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry
U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud
U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s Aide Commits Suicide
U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases
Film Star Mabel Normand’s Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines
Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley Is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act
Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government
Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies After Weekend on Hearst’s Yacht
Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped
Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games
Mae West’s Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway
President Warren G. Harding’s Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir
Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria Swanson
Actor Is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian
Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit
Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience
Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry
Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery
Postmaster’s Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal
Surrealist Film L’Âge D’or Provokes French Rioting
“Scottsboro Boys” Are Railroaded Through Rape Trials
Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation
U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington
Film Star Jean Harlow’s Husband Is an Apparent Suicide
Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase
New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine
Stavisky’s Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government
General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel
Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee
Film Star Thelma Todd’s Death Cannot Be Explained
British Cabinet Member Resigns After Budget Information Leak
Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation
King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée
Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption
Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany
Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion
Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape
President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans
French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II
Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration
Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized
Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-five Girls
Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity
Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax
Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration
Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason
French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration
Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized
Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor
Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties
Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison
Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman’s Corruption
Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession
Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Adulterous Affair
Viet Minh Broadcasts French General’s Damaging Report
Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury
Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt
U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime
College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money
Belgium’s Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates
Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes
Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States
Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions
George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen
Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax
Scandal Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun’s Criminal Past
British Atrocities in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion Are Revealed
Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders
British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography
George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents Are Fakes
President Truman’s Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy
Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Actor Lana Turner’s Daughter Kills Turner’s Gangster Lover
President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling
Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud
Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show
President Kennedy’s Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime
U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry
FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks
Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments
Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud
Marilyn Monroe Sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President”
British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying
West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices
Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust
John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government
Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad Is Sued for Paternity
Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections
Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help Are Ignored
President Lyndon Johnson’s Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex Sting
Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris
Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress
Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds
Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband
Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery
Senator Edward Kennedy’s Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne
Japanese Baseball Players Are Implicated in Game Fixing
American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed
United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered
Study of Anonymous Gay Sex Leads to Ethics Scandal
National Guardsmen Kill Protesting Kent State Students
Irish Politicians Are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons
New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers
Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment
Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs
Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon’s Resignation
Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud
Jane Fonda’s Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans
Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race
Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box Derby
Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace
Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank
Washington Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts
French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute’s House
Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market
Congressman Wilbur D. Mills’s Stripper Affair Leads to His Downfall
Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal
British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide
Honduras’s “Bananagate” Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive’s Suicide
Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their Clothes
Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer in Tonga
U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in Koreagate Scandal
Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials
Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion Vladimir Sabich
West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams
Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays’s Affair
Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit
Jimmy Carter Admits Committing Adultery in His Heart
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke
German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot
Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights
Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks
Carter Cabinet Member Resigns over Ethics Violations
Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway
Actor Joan Crawford’s Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir, Mommie Dearest
Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism
Roman Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial
Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son
Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson
British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder
Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires
Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously
Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover
South African President B. J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal
Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company
French President Giscard d’Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe
Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering
Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties
Biographer Claims Actor Errol Flynn Was a Nazi Spy
Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers
Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover
Mobster’s Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players
President’s Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya
Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey’s Marital Problems
Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy
Bendix Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair
Rita Jenrette’s “Diary of a Mad Congresswife” Scandalizes Washington
Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature
Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony
Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection
Court Finds That Ford Ignored Pinto’s Safety Problems
Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted Church Funds
Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign
Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have Children Out of Wedlock
Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations
Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting
Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards Deny Being Gay
Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt
German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries
Congress Members Censured in House-Page Sex Scandal
McMartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case
Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home
British Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant
Jesse Jackson Calls New York City “Hymietown”
E. F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud
Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign
Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths
Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher’s Government
Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud
French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior
Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to Promoting Prostitution
West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany
Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna
Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi Past Is Revealed
Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud
Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan’s Administration
Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption
Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference
NCAA Imposes “Death Penalty” on Southern Methodist University Football
Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network
Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star
Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign
Black Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by Police Officers
Yale Scholar’s Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed
ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery
Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government
Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor
Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud
Scientists’ “Cold Fusion” Claims Cannot Be Verified
Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud
Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal
Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha
Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for Betting on Games
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed
Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution
Prince Charles’s Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped
Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use
Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents
Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud
Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award
William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape
George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading
Comedian Pee-wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency
Justice Clarence Thomas’s Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal
Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow’s Adopted Daughter
Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion
Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey’s Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation
Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco
U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal
Princess Diana’s Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public
British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns over Romantic Affair
Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband’s Penis
British Cabinet Member Resigns After Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock
U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating
Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal
Double Murder Leads to Sensational O. J. Simpson Trial
Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O. J. Simpson Photo
Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on Rival
Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup
Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation
Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of NAACP Chief Benjamin Chavis
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas’s Brother Is Arrested for Murder
Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct
Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal
Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption
Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article
Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case
Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey
Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall
Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is Arrested for Statutory Rape
Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud
Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard
Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims
Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash
Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual Assault
Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood
HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents
President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern
Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism
Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct
Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles’s Rampart Division
Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud
Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal
Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans
Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock
Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Extramarital Affair Is Revealed
Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges
American Scientists Are Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon
Ex-gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a Gay Bar
Gymnast Andreea Ra{gbreve}ducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs
Japanese Amateur Archaeologist’s “Discoveries” Are Proven Fakes
Sexual Abuse of Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair
Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering
Liverpool Children’s Hospital Collects Body Parts Without Authorization
CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians
Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears
Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying
Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape
Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found to Be Overage
Enron Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud
Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying His Résumé
Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism
Boston Globe Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism
French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics
Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory
Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns over Fraud Allegations
Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy
Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds in New Zealand
Immunologist Resigns After Being Accused of Falsifying Research
Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Faked His Research
British Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John Major
Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations
Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Presidential Campaign
E-mail Message Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults
U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to Have Spied on U.N. Officials
New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud
University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in Sex Scandal
Sexually Provocative Film The Brown Bunny Premieres at Cannes Film Festival
Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape
Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame
Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices
Newspaper Claims That Arnold Schwarzenegger Groped Women
Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web
Senator Strom Thurmond’s Biracial Daughter Is Revealed
Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation
Former United Way Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading Scandal
CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib
U.N. Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges
Blog “Outs” Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock
60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush’s Evasion of Wartime Duty
Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O’Reilly
Insurance Brokerage Marsh & McLennan Is Charged with Fraud
Iqbal Riza Resigns from the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal
German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for Money
Former Baseball Star Mark McGwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use
U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at Its Academy
Federal Agents Raid Congressman Randall Cunningham’s Home
Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
Westar Energy Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company
Danish Newspaper’s Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests
Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone over Slave Labor
Spokane, Washington, Mayor Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal
British Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy
Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary
Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer
Scientist Is Indicted for Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells
Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food That Killed Thousands of American Pets
New York Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University
Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal
Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-Semitic Remarks
Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties
New Zealand Prime Minister’s Husband Is “Outed” as Gay
Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard Spied on Its Own Board
Congressman Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page
Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns
Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations
Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard
News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O. J. Simpson’s Book
Former Russian Security Service Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning
Subprime Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse
Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital
Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His Radio Show over Sexist and Racist Remarks
Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself
Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption
Senator David Vitter’s Name Is Found in D.C. Madam’s Address Book
Florida Politician Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer
University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification
Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dogfighting Ring
New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams
Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal
Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges
NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games
Financial Institutions and Markets Begin to Collapse
