Word: scandalous
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...effort to somehow get past the stench of scandal, Feeney took a calculated gamble, airing a 30-second TV spot for 10 days beginning in late September to apologize for his Abramoff-funded golf vacation. That trip has earned him scrutiny in an ongoing U.S. Justice Department investigation; a featured spot for three years running on the list of most corrupt government officials compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); and plenty of ammunition for Kosmas...
...people are just voting emotionally and they're looking for someone to be mad at, that [Abramoff scandal] would be a problem and we felt it was very important to get that out of the way very early in the race," Feeney said in an interview with TIME. "That immediately takes the issue off the table...
Researchers say arms trading has boomed in the decade since the Angolagate scandal was uncovered. That's partly due to heightened supply. As ex-Soviet republics emerged as economic actors in their own right, several countries developed national arms industries, refitting weapons from their stocks and manufacturing new weapons of their own. Those industries have taken off in recent years. Ukraine has about 6 million light weapons from Soviet stockpiles, and has modernized tanks, anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry, says Hugh Griffiths, an expert on illicit weapons at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. A dramatic example of Ukraine...
Garcia has been dealing with a far-reaching corruption scandal that began Oct. 5, with the release of a secretly taped audio of two men talking about how they could grease the wheels for a Norwegian company to get oil and gas concessions in country. Garcia and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hastily called a press conference as soon as the audio was played on a local news show, trying to put distance between themselves and the men on the tape, who are also members of ruling APRA party...
...week ago, Garcia reached outside his party and picked a left-leaning governor as the new Cabinet chief. But the scandal has not faded. Congress has appointed a special committee to investigate 17 oil and gas exploration contracts awarded in September, including the five given the Norwegian company in a consortium with Peru's state-owned oil company, as well as 36 others handed out in the past two years. The head of the committee, Rep. Daniel Abugattas, said he expects to find a pattern of deceit. "The government has been giving away our natural resources to the lowest bidders...