Word: misconducts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorney said he plans to appeal on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence in the case, potential prosecutional misconduct and because the judge allowed some of Razo's confessions as evidence...
While that was the announcement the House had been anticipating for days, the packed chamber saved its applause for the moment when the Speaker, the first ever to be forced from office by allegations of misconduct, begged for an end to the hostilities in Congress. Fist clenched, he thundered, "Both political parties must resolve to bring this period of mindless cannibalism...
...Monetary Affairs subcommittee in what could be the most extensive and embarrassing examination of the IRS since Watergate. While the subcommittee has not discovered the widespread bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
...subcommittee's chairman, Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., says the IRS has become so consumed with preserving its reputation that it is using Section 6103's confidentiality provisions to thwart congressional scrutiny of alleged misconduct. Citing Section 6103, IRS officials have refused to turn over confidential files about the Jordache affair and other cases. "We are handicapped from doing the oversight job that Congress has determined we should do," says Barnard, a conservative former banker...
...minute speech charging top Communists with corruption. Soviet sources say that when he finished, Gorbachev advised him to make sure he was right "because I will ask you tough questions." A few days later, Pravda disclosed that Gdlyan would be suspended from his post as prosecutor. The official reason: misconduct in a 1983 corruption investigation of Estonian scientist and nationalist Johannes Khint...