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Scandal is defined as "loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety". Scandals are separate from 'controversies', (which implies two differing points of view) and 'unpopularity'. Many decisions are controversial, many decisions are unpopular, that alone does not make them scandals.
The Teapot Dome Scandal. This 1920s scandal had it all: “ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful for bribery ...
Teapot Dome scandal [29] Republican: Robert García: House of Representatives: New York 1989 Hobbs Act: Wedtech scandal [30] Democrat: Richard T. Hanna: House of Representatives: California 1978 Conspiracy to defraud the United States Koreagate [31] Democrat: James F. Hastings: House of Representatives: New York 1976 Mail fraud [32] Republican ...
Pages in category "Political corruption scandals in the United States" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
“This sub-group is referred to as red-collar criminals because they straddle both the white-collar crime arena and, eventually, the violent crime arena. In circumstances where there is the threat of detection, red-collar criminals commit brutal acts of violence to silence the people who have detected their fraud and to prevent further ...
A Harvard study says investigations and prosecutions of white-collar crimes first scaled back post 9/11, as the FBI shifted to combating terrorism. White-Collar Crime in America Skip to main content
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
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