Word: scandal
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...most passive and incurious men to ever occupy the Oval Office. During his first term, one of his closest advisers swore that on his own, Reagan could not have found the office of the White House chief of staff. Morris' reconstruction of the Iran-contra scandal paints a devastating picture of a floundering and uncomprehending Chief Executive...
...last week, the scandal swirling around the Los Angeles Police Department was being called the city's worst since the 1930s. But the bad cops of that era, who took bribes of French champagne from madams and cash from bootleggers and gamblers, almost seem like nostalgic Humphrey Bogart types compared with the officers who ruined the life of a 19-year-old kid named Javier Francisco Ovando...
Some justice came for Ovando last week, as officials began unraveling a scandal that goes beyond him. On Thursday, at the unusual request of the deputy district attorney, a judge dismissed Ovando's case. Ovando returns to what is left of his life and the bittersweet joy of seeing his daughter for the first time. She was born while he was in jail...
...scandal that set off Washington's alarms was the one that touched home at the Bank of New York. Federal agents were tipped off in August 1998 that unusually large amounts of money were zooming through the bank from Russian sources. Over the next 11 months, with the bank's cooperation, the Feds watched while at least $4.2 billion passed through several accounts, notably belonging to a mysterious British company called Benex Worldwide, then out to a confusing array of other banks and companies...
L.A.P.D. Biggest corruption scandal in 60 years rocks cops. Next: Mark Fuhrman, special prosecutor...