Word: misconducts
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Schismatic Catholic George Stallings, on the verge of becoming a bishop, faces charges of financial and sexual misconduct. -- The Mormons revise a supersecret rite...
Abrams said she hopes gender bias in the courtroom will eventually become a form of official misconduct...
Last year President Bush pledged "every effort" to lock up the white- collar criminals who had helped cause the nation's savings and loan disaster. Indeed, with studies showing that insider misconduct has contributed to 60% to 75% of all thrift failures, the search for banking's bad guys is one of the largest criminal manhunts in U.S. history. But, like Bush's war on drugs, the war on S&Ls has completely overwhelmed prosecutors and investigators. There are more than 3,500 major criminal cases pending, yet 1,500 of them are inactive and gathering dust. Indeed, the backlog...
Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, the nation's most successful program for runaway teenagers, hoped that by resigning he would end the controversy that has engulfed the organization since four young men accused him of sexual misconduct. Instead, the turmoil mounted. The state attorney general has widened an investigation to include personal loans that Ritter and other Covenant House officials obtained from the organization, possibly in violation of state...
...make matters worse, Frank Macchiarola, who became Covenant House's acting president after Ritter was suspended by his religious order while it investigated the allegations of sexual misconduct, also quit. One explanation for his departure was that Ritter urged the board of directors to seek a nun or priest as his permanent replacement and appoint his longtime deputy James Harnett, a layman, as interim head. With the group's credibility compromised, the loan revelations may endanger its fund-raising ability -- and its ministry to the young...