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    Watergate Scandal

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    definitions‚ such as: bribery‚ conspiracy‚ obstruction of justice‚ phone tapping‚ tax fraud‚ etc. However the above all watergate is synonymous with abuse of power. The exact reasoning a distraught economy four years two years after this scandal took place. The watergate scandal is one of the most infamous crimes to date in U.S history. The break-in took place early in the Watergate building in Washington D.C. one morning on June 17‚ 1972. There were several burglars arrested who allegedly

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    Adelphia Scandal

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    The Adelphia Scandal The Dawn of Adelphia Adelphia was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and his brother Gus Rigas in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania with the purchase of their first cable franchise for $300. After 20 years‚ the Rigas brothers incorporated their company under the name Adelphia which derived its name from a Greek word which means brothers‚ an apt corporate title for a business that would employ generations of the Rigas family. Adelphia was a cable television company and built its success

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    The Watergate Scandal

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    The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty

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    mensalao scandal

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    What exactly was the "mensalao" scandal? It was an alleged scheme that embezzled public funds to buy political support for the then Lula government and to pay off debts from election campaigns. The central accusation was that politicians from coalition parties were given large payments each month to support the minority government led by the Workers’ Party. The scandal nearly caused the Lula administration to collapse. How did the affair come to light? The scandal broke in 2005 when a congressman

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    Rampart Scandal

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    Rampart Scandal By: Cindy Medina Cindy Medina CJCU 403 John Strain April 15‚ 2012 Rampart Scandal in the LAPD Department Growing up everyone has been told stories of cops and how they represent being hero’s. Cops are supposed to save peoples lives and stand up against crime and violence but the stores we have been told are not exactly one hundred percent correct. The LAPD was involved in one of the most talked about scandals known as the Rampart Scandal

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    School for Scandal

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    An analysis of The School for Scandal‚ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan “The School for Scandal” by Richard Brinsley Sheridan is generally considered as one of Richard masterful play that represents a comedy of manners. This play satirizes the deeds and customs of upper classes brought out through a witty exchange of ideas and a convoluted plot with comic situations that are utilized in order to describe the shortcomings of the characters. In regards to characters‚ the play entails stock type characters

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    The Bofors Scandal

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    The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the

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    Lewinsky Scandal

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    Lewinsky scandal * The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998‚ from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House intern‚ Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate

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    The Watergate Scandal

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    National TV and lying to the public. Imagine that President then getting caught. This is the Scandal that caused the first ever resignation in United States History‚ Watergate. The Scandal involved approximately 70 people‚ but only 25 were actually found guilty. Many people who were found guilty were some of President Nixon’s top officials. Including G. Gordon Libby‚ John Dean‚ and H. R. Haldeman. The watergate scandal resulted in a loss of trust in the federal government‚ many people being found guilty

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    PDAF SCANDAL

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    PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISSTANCE FUND (PDAF) By: PEREZ‚ Chrysalyka C. I. INTRODUCTION PDAF or Priority Development Assistance Fund is a form of pork barrel which has been a very controversial issue in our country today. These are funds given or allocated to government officials in order to support and be spent on community projects and/or repairs and improvements. G. Luis Igaya of Institute for Popular Democracy defined pork barrel

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