Word: scandalizing
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That is a powerful statement, given the maligned reputations of previous Mexican administrations, including that of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, whose Education Minister and one of whose Attorneys General were implicated, but never charged, in the scandal surrounding the kidnapping, torture and murder of U.S. DEA special agent Kiki Camarena in 1985. Other Mexican government officials accused of complicity with drug organizations include a former special prosecutor against drugs, two former police commanders, a former Interior Minister, a former Defense Minister, the son of the former Governor of the state of Jalisco and the brother...
SEVENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD FREDERICK B. Lacey is America's leading justice-for-rent. The retired federal judge has been hired to lead investigations of sensitive cases ranging from the Iraq-gate scandal to Michael Jordan's gambling activities. But Lacey 's handling of his most challenging role, federal supervision of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has provoked debate about whether Lacey and his justice Department employers have gone soft in their handling of America's most corrupt union...
This is not the first time critics have accused Lacey of a whitewash. Appointed as the Bush Administration's investigator into the Iraqgate scandal, Lacey declared that the government's handling of the case was "virtually perfect." That brought charges of "patsy" and worse, since many critics felt Lacey should have called for an independent prosecutor. Lacey and his staff have labeled their Teamsters report "extensive," but there were numerous leads unpursued and witnesses not interviewed. For example, Ron Carey's brother Carlisle was not questioned; in 1972 he married the widow of an alleged associate of the Colombo family...
...course, things don't exactly turn out as planned. Scozz doesn't prove to be much help at all. As Richard tries everything: wife-stealing, scandal-mongering and slander to get Gwyn out of the picture, he slowly goes mad. Naturally, Gwyn foils every one of Richard's attempts at revenge. In the end, Gwyn exacts his own revenge for Richard's petty crimes, and he gets the girl too. This climatic scene is a little much, and, after 300-something pages, a bit of a let-down...
These guidelines were put in place in the aftermath of the COINTELPRO scandal of the early 1970s, when it was revealed that the bureau was not only infiltrating but disrupting and harassing extremist organizations. First issued in 1976 by Attorney General Edward Levi and later modified by Attorney General William French Smith, the rules give the bureau authority to investigate by means that include, if necessary, "recruitment or placement of informants in groups, 'mail covers,' or electronic surveillance," provided the "facts and circumstances reasonably indicate" that a group "is engaged in an enterprise for furthering political or social goals wholly...