Word: repped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...let’s not neglect those less prestigious but no less devious players, good old American boys like 1950s State Secretary Orville Hodge, who embezzled around $1.5 million in state funds to buy private jets and cars, or former Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds, who served time after his conviction in 1995 for 16 felonies involving campaign finance fraud. Even the unsuccessful have courageously toyed with scandal: Jack Ryan, Republican contender for the Senate in 2004, never lied or embezzled, but his campaign was nonetheless scuppered by allegations from his wife that he tried to get her to publicly perform...
...will likely be scant accountability following the recent extinction of banks like Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns, the collapse and sale of Merrill Lynch, or he bailout of A.I.G. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Lehman’s CEO, might not face any more discomfort than his public roasting by Rep. Henry Waxman, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. No judge can sentence him to pay back the $300 million he took from the company in the last few years, because he did so legally—if unethically...
...close to an Animal House experience as I've ever seen. There were science experiments in the sink."- Shar Hendrick, Gibbs' roommate during Alabama Rep. Glenn Browder's 1996 Senate campaign (Opelika-Auburn News...
...past few weeks, it's easy to forget that Democrats were in a state of absolute despair not so long ago. At the dawn of 2003, the House, the Senate and the White House lay in Republican hands, while the Supreme Court threatened to tilt further to the right. Rep. Tom Delay, then the Republican majority leader, was overheard calling out, while smoking a cigar in a government building, "I am the federal government...
...Kerzner earned his rep as a world-class risk taker by building Sun City, a Las Vegas-style gambling and entertainment complex in a black "homeland" at the height of the apartheid era in South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid regime; Kerzner countered that Sun City was a place where blacks and whites broke racial barriers by partying together. Kerzner later became friends with Nelson Mandela, attending the South African hero's 90th birthday party in London in June. By the time apartheid fell, Kerzner was selling off his properties...