Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much worse with the Iran-contra hearings grabbing the nation's attention only months before the New Hampshire primary. A senior Gore aide says this period will ultimately be remembered merely as "bumpy air." But if an independent counsel enters the picture, dragging out an investigation, the taint of scandal could endure for Gore right up to the 2000 primaries. Says an adviser to one of Gore's rivals: "The thought has occurred...
Within hours of his conviction, Symington, 52, a Republican, resigned from office and thus became the second Arizona Governor in a decade to step down as a result of scandal. Governor Evan Mecham, a former car dealer, was impeached and removed from office in 1988 on charges of obstructing justice and misusing state money. He was acquitted of separate charges in a criminal trial...
...sued by the Resolution Trust Corporation for his role in directing the failed Southwest Savings & Loan Association in Phoenix. Two years later, Symington, who had campaigned as a successful business mogul, declared himself broke. Despite his troubles, he won re-election in 1994. But the litany of scandal never stopped. In 1995, after a court ruled that Symington was personally liable for a $10 million loan from six pension funds to his now defunct real estate company, he declared personal bankruptcy. Then last year a federal grand jury indicted the Governor on 23 felony counts. He declared himself a victim...
...miserable. Hitchens followed up with a scathing, book-length critique called The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which noted that Mother Teresa once wrote to Judge Lance Ito requesting leniency for Charles Keating, whom he was about to sentence in the late-1980s savings-and-loan scandal. Keating had once contributed $1.25 million to the Missionaries of Charity...
While Reno isn't budging on the independent counsel issue, the Attorney General is increasingly dissatisfied with the slow pace of her task force. Sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon that while the task force targets the least significant players in the scandal, Reno sides with the FBI's push for a "more muscular" approach...