Word: scandalized
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...only did high-ranking San Diego officials give themselves preferential treatment for their pensions, they also distributed outsize benefits to city workers. A department director with 39 years of service collects $148,000 a year for life; an assistant port director with 31 years, $132,000. So far, the scandal has cost the mayor his job, six pension-fund trustees have been charged, city services are being slashed and investigations have been launched by the FBI, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney...
There was only one reason that clients ranging from Native-American tribes to Fortune 500 CEOs to Pacific Island potentates were willing to pay Jack Abramoff millions. The lobbyist at the center of a spreading scandal that has touched numerous lawmakers, including former House majority leader Tom DeLay, had access like few others to people in power. But in the place that mattered most, even someone as well-connected as Abramoff needed help. When he had to make sure his clients' concerns got the attention of the right people in the George W. Bush White House, Abramoff often turned...
Reed has rested his defense on fine distinctions, saying the payments he received from Indian tribes didn't come from gambling. But that line may be tested when the Senate Indian Affairs Committee--chaired by his old nemesis McCain--holds another hearing on the Abramoff scandal next week. Reed has not yet been called to testify, but the hearing will focus on the Louisiana Coushattas, whom Abramoff arranged to pay more than a million dollars to Reed for his services. Inconveniently, the tribe has no profitmaking ventures other than gambling...
When Benjamin A. Ladner first took the reins of American University (A.U.) in 1994, the Washington, D.C.-based private school was awash in turmoil and tainted by controversy. Board members did not expect Ladner to add to the scandal...
...Ladner in many ways is the Richard Nixon of A.U. He has done a few great things, but in the end his tenure will be marred with scandal,” Brusoe writes...