Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...covered? In a private, quiet conversation with deputies, Simpson complained about his jail-cell conditions and asked not to be returned. "I'll do anything to stay out of that cell," he said. The tete-a-tete was picked up by a lurking microphone and beamed worldwide. Prefer your scandal in paperback? Three volumes are in the works...
There's a pattern to these cases. Once the scandal breaks, the company expresses total shock that any of its employees could have done such a thing. Then it volunteers to work with authorities in nabbing the culprits. No matter how many millions of dollars are involved, the culprits turn out to be loners. Their superiors hardly knew their name. This is the "the butler did it" phase...
Colorful populist Edwin Edwards, Louisiana's gambling-loving and scandal- hounded but never convicted Governor, unexpectedly and without explanation announced that he would not seek a fifth term...
...prosecution of the 1991 Tailhook sex scandal that rocked the Navy and Marine Corps came to a close when the Marines dismissed the last case pending against an officer because of insufficient evidence, leaving a record of no trials, though some punishments, for the 145 cases targeted by the Pentagon for investigation...
...secret trial in Abu Dhabi ended with jail terms-- and a $9.13 billion bill--for 12 key figures in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal. But the bank's two senior officers, who handled huge sums of the emir's fortune until investigators closed the fraudulent operation in 1991, weren't present to help pay up. One of them, 71-year-old founder Aga Hasan Abedi, is now ensconced in his native Pakistan, on good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says...