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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...
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...
America’s Next Top Underaged Model? Not quite. Johnson says this show is sex- and scandal-free. “[The show] isn’t focused around drama,” she writes in an e-mail. “It has a much more positive spin than other reality shows...
...mayor must navigate that tricky terrain in the midst of a new scandal in New Orleans' notoriously corrupt and ineffectual police department. It was bad enough that some officers were accused of deserting their posts and looting Cadillacs during Katrina, but now two officers stand accused of beating a retired African-American schoolteacher who they claim was drunk and resisting arrest (he denies it) in the reopened French Quarter--a brutal attack that was caught on video and left Nagin's welcome mat looking all the more tattered. The officers have pleaded not guilty to charges of battery. Nagin...