Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Denying all, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams insisted that Jacobsen had actually pocketed the $10,000 himself and then pinned a bum rap on Connally. Jacobsen did that, said Williams, "to extricate himself from his troubles" after he had been indicted in an unrelated savings and loan scandal. Indeed, prosecutors dropped seven fraud charges against Jacobsen after he agreed to plead guilty to one count of offering gratuities and said that he would testify against Connally. Earlier, Jacobsen had testified six times to four other investigative bodies that Connally had not taken money from...
...stories. ABC News recently aired on national TV an hour-long documentary accusing the IRS of being too willing to share confidential tax returns with other Government agencies and of occasionally using heavyhanded tactics to collect money. Newspapers have been filled with reports of Operation Leprechaun, a Nixon-era scandal involving alleged recruitment by IRS tax sleuths of a sex spy to collect information on prominent Floridians...
...Worst Scandal. Perhaps the worst scandal Alexander inherited was the agency's Special Services Group, which had amassed dossiers on 3,000 supposedly extremist organizations and 8,000 individuals. "I got rid of that damned thing two months after I got here," he says. Alexander has also passed the word that any political requests for tax returns be rebuffed - and if they come from the White House, be personally relayed to him for refusal. "I want to be sure that there is no backdoor information going out of here," he says. Apparently there no longer is: there...
...Black Cloud) and scientific gadfly, had charged that Hewish "pinched" the prize for himself by failing to give Jocelyn Bell proper credit. Asked by a reporter if he considered it a scientific injustice to leave Bell out of the award, Hoyle replied: "Yes, I think it was a scientific scandal of major proportions...
...France. Resnais asks us to believe that Trotsky could have held the European Left together by his commanding presence--and here I fail to follow him, for it is far from certain that Trotsky's location had such resonant historical consequences. And it seems likely that the Stavisky scandal was merely the occasion of Trotsky's expulsion and not its cause. Trotsky's appearances in the film are curious but handled without any major blunders, and the Trotsky theme does make the important point that the world--the world that Stavisky thinks is simply an oyster waiting to be raped...