Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and elector of Saxony, built the ornate Taschenbergpalais as a residence for his favorite mistress. The Baroque palace, later occupied by the Wettin dynasty, was virtually destroyed by Allied bombing raids in 1945. Five decades later, the architectural treasure has been rebuilt and reopened as the Grand Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski, with 213 guest rooms. Located in the heart of the city, the hotel has a fully restored...
...Justice Department announced it was beginning a preliminary inquiry into how much money Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros paid to a former mistress and whether he had been fully candid about the payments in pre-nomination statements to the FBI. The move could lead to the appointment of an independent counsel. Cisneros said that under the strict standards of federal ethics law, the Justice Department had no other choice than to open a probe, but he reiterated his contention that the investigation would uncover no wrongdoing...
...want her to slip back into it." And, according to a federal grand jury, he went out of his way to make certain she didn't. Last week details emerged about how Aramony, the former president of United Way of America, allegedly supported his then teenage mistress with funds siphoned through a spin-off company from the $3 billion charity he headed. Aramony's Sept. 13 indictment described how he sent her flowers, provided her with limousine rides, flew her to vacations, gave her use of a New York City condo, made out checks to her for "consulting," presented...
...cloud of a possible independent-counsel probe fell over Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros: the Justice Department indicated it was beginning a preliminary review of Cisneros' payments to a former mistress and the statements he made about the money to federal agents prior to his appointment. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who is already the target of an independent counsel investigation regarding his travel expenses, let it be known that he has been voluntarily writing personal reimbursement checks to various benefactors in order to clear up any appearance of impropriety...
...funds from United Way were siphoned to a mistress...