Word: scandalizer
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...liberal Congressional Black Caucus was incensed that one of its members had been punished before he had even been indicted. But Pelosi's action helped rebut the G.O.P.'s contention that Democrats had as many corruption problems as Republicans, many of whom are caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal...
...last year to overturn the conviction of accounting firm Arthur Andersen wasn't without precedent. (Nor was it helpful: after the initial trial, Andersen had collapsed and some 28,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs.) Similarly, Charles Keating, one of the biggest nabs in the 1980s savings and loan scandal, saw his conviction reversed nearly five years after going to prison. And after the late-'80s insider-trading Wall Street sweep that, among other things, sent Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky to prison, a number of convictions were overturned, including that of onetime Boesky associate John Mulheren. "When...
...soccer stars, carnival queens and scantily clad beach babes. One post-war politician in Sao Paulo state won three terms as mayor and governor with the dubious endorsement that "he steals, but he gets things done." Former president Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 over a corruption scandal, and in 2001 it was revealed that fraudsters had bled an astonishing $2 billion from two government agencies established to help the country's poor...
...Still, the ambulance affair - locally dubbed the ?bloodsuckers scandal? - may have a significant effect on October's elections for President, Congress and 27 state governors. With more than 100 of the legislature's 513 deputies implicated in the scandal and further revelations emerging almost daily, distrust of politicians has reached record levels. But even if many voters now believe that whomever they choose will be corrupt, they can't simply stay away from the polls, because voting is compulsory under Brazil's constitution. That's why campaigns aimed at convincing people to spoil their ballots are gathering pace. "There...
...with everything else about the Clintons, how you view their marriage tends to be a good indicator of your politics, and vice versa. Whereas a majority of Democrats in the TIME poll said they believe Hillary stayed with Bill after the Monica Lewinsky scandal because of Hillary's commitment to the marriage, 72% of Republicans said she did it to advance her political career. Nothing makes her strategists more nervous than the occasional scandal-sheet report that Bill had been spotted out on the town. The possibility of another scandal is "the subject nobody wants to touch," says...