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Issues in political scandals have included alleged or proven financial and sexual matters, [1] or various other allegations or actions taken by politicians that led to controversy. [2] [3] [4] In British media and political discourse, such scandals have sometimes been referred to as political sleaze since the 1990s. [4]
In 1997, his daughter Mary Kay Letourneau was convicted of raping a 12-year-old male student of hers. [66] Rep. Dan Crane of Illinois (Republican) and Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts (Democrat) were both convicted on 20 July 1983 in the Congressional Page sex scandal for having sex with a 17-year-old congressional page. [67]
The list is organized by office. The criminal statute(s) under which the conviction(s) were obtained are noted, as are the names of notable investigations, scandals, or litigation, if applicable. The year of conviction is included (if the official was convicted multiple times due to retrials, only the year of the first conviction is included).
The Prime Minister survived when other politicians may have been brought down by controversy.
An explicit, leaked video of two men having sex in a Capitol hearing room has rocked Washington, D.C., and a legislative aide has lost his job. What to Know About Washington’s Scandal Over Sex ...
Grant and the Whiskey Ring. A group led by President Ulysses S. Grant’s private secretary Gen. Orville E. Babcock conspired to skim tax revenue to help fund Grant’s re-election campaign in 1871.
The Palace of Westminster, in which the Houses of Parliament are based This article lists the published allegations of expenses abuse made against specific members of the British Parliament in the course of the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal. While the majority of these were first made public by The Daily Telegraph on or after 8 May 2009, a few cases had already come to public ...
CBS News called it "the biggest Pentagon scandal in 20 years" and said that she pleaded guilty to a felony. [107] Wade Sanders (D) Deputy Assistant United States Secretary of the Navy, for Reserve Affairs, was sentenced to 37 months in prison on one charge of possession of child pornography (2009). [108] [109] [110]