Word: scandalous
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...unprecedented move, the supervisory board of German engineering giant Siemens AG on Tuesday launched plans to sue 11 former management board executives, including former CEOs Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, over alleged supervisory failings linked to a $2 billion bribes-for-business scandal...
...board's decision came after the sentencing on Monday of Reinhard Siekaczek, a former midlevel manager in Siemens' telecommunications business, the first conviction in connection with the bribery scandal, which became public in late 2006 and may reach back to 2000. Siekaczek admitted to overseeing a system in which he diverted company funds into secret bank accounts that were used to pay bribes. The Munich court fined Siekaczek $170,000 and issued a two-year suspended prison sentence. The Munich prosecutor said he hoped Siekaczek's lenient sentence, offered in exchange for a full confession, would encourage many...
...Sudjojono disclosed his affair with Rose to PKI officials, and declared his intention to marry her. He had eight children from his first marriage by this time, and Rose had three from hers. The PKI had cultivated a morally upright, pro-family image and was fearful of the ensuing scandal. It threatened Sudjojono with expulsion...
...Mosley, already a multimillionaire, monetary compensation will do little to repair his personal life. As he testified last week, the scandal has been "totally devastating" to his wife of 48 years and "humiliating" for his two sons. "He is hardly exaggerating when he says that his life was ruined," Justice Eady wrote in his decision. Despite Mosley's fantasies involving canes, whips and spankings, a shattered family life could prove to be the pain that lasts the longest...
...thousands of new Democratic voters and shoveling in cash it can use to introduce him to America. He could still foul up the debates or make a monumental gaffe or otherwise misplay his strong hand. It's still possible that something could happen - Fidel Castro's death? A Democratic scandal? - to shake up the dynamics of the race. In politics, anything's possible...