Three Volumes 1,236 Pages 400 Essays 70 Sidebars/Tables Five Maps 250 Photographs Bibliography Keyword List of Contents Quotations from Primary Source    Documents Chronological List of Entries Geographical Index Category Index Personages Index Subject Index Articles Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire White Sox Players Conspire Thalidomide & Birth Defects French Sink Greenpeace Ship Faked Hitler Diaries Martha Stewart Convicted Deadly Pet Food from China Other Elements Table of Contents Subject Index Modern Scandals adds to the Salem History database. Purchasing it entitles a school or library to a free subscription to Salem History, including all the content in this set PLUS all the content in any of the other Great Events titles a library owns. Free through 12/31/2011. For more info, just click Salem History. For info call (800) 221-1592. For more information about the other Great Events from History sets, simply click here. If you need help with products and ordering, setting up a new account or working with this website, call or email us: Phone: (800) 221-1592 Email: csr@salempress.com

Editor: Carl L. Bankston III, Tulane University ISBN: 978-1-58765-468-8 List Price: $295 March 2009 · 3 volumes · 1,400 pages · 8"x10" Combines Print & Online Access Great Events from History: Modern Scandals Table of Contents 1900's   December, 1904: Boston Reelects an Alderman Who Is in Jail for Fraud   1904: President Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds   January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery   1906-1909: Emperor William II's Homosexual "Circle" Scandalizes Germany   March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Is Accused of Sexually Abusing Disabled Children   June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White in a Crime of Passion   July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason   December 8, 1906: Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover   1907: Elinor Glyn's Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers   June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion   November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II   1909-1916: Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir   1910: Nobel Laureate Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin   1910's   1911-1916: British Prime Minister's Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading   March 25, 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills Nearly 150 Workers   January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Using His Office for Personal Gain   February 17-March 15, 1913: Scandalous Armory Show Transforms American Perceptions of Modern Art   May 13, 1913: Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution   April 2, 1915: British Soccer Players Fix a Match   May, 1915: British Government Is Blamed for Wartime Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks   July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances   1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Fraud   September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series   1920's   July 19, 1921: Senate Rebukes Navy's Tactics in Homosexuality Investigation   1922: Government Bonds Scandal Begins in Ontario, Canada   February 1, 1922: Director William Desmond Taylor's Murder Unravels Mabel Normand's Acting Career   March 26, 1922: Scandalous Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun's Sexuality   April 12, 1922: Film Star Roscoe Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter   June, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honours   September 16, 1922: Episcopal Priest and His Lover are Found Dead   January 18, 1923: Film Star Wallace Reid's Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry   March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Investigation of Head of Veterans Bureau   May 30, 1923: Attorney General's Aide Commits Suicide   October 22, 1923: Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil-Lease Scandal   May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman Is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act   January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand's Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines   October 25, 1924: Publication of Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government   November 20, 1924: Actor Thomas Ince Dies on William Randolph Hearst's Yacht   July, 1925: Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula's Copyright   May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped   December 26, 1926: Baseball Stars Cobb and Speaker Are Accused of Game Fixing   1927: Mae West's Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway   1927: President Harding's Lover Publishes a Tell-All Memoir   November, 1927: Businessman Joseph Kennedy Begins Affair with Actor Gloria Swanson   1928-1929: Long Lance Suspected of Claiming an American Indian Identity   March 21, 1928: Canada Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit   1929: Screening of the Film Un Chien Andalou Provokes Outrage   November, 1929: Oustric et Cie Bank Failure Leads to a Parliamentary Inquiry   1930: Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slave Labor   May, 1930: Postmaster's Division of Airmail Routes Among Only Three Carriers Creates a Scandal   December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L'Âge d'or Provokes Condemnation and Rioting in Paris   1930's   March 30, 1931: Nine African American Youth Are Railroaded Through the Scottsboro Boys Rape Trials   1932: Collapse of the Insull Utilities Trusts Leads to New Federal Regulation   July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington   September 4, 1932: Film Star Jean Harlow's Husband Is an Apparent Suicide   January 20, 1933: Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase   March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Allegations of a Soviet Famine   March 31, 1933: Journalist Duranty Denies the Existence of Famine in the Soviet Union   1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Journalist Drew Pearson for Libel   January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936: Stavisky's Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government   July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee   December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd's Death in Her Car Remains Unexplained   May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Secret Budget Information Leak   Mid-1936: Film Star Mary Astor's Diary Becomes a Public Sensation   December 10, 1936: Britain's King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée   1937: British Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany   March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes Vice and Corruption in the San Francisco Police Department   September-October, 1937: Untested Prescription Elixir Kills More than One Hundred People   May 22, 1939: Kansas City's Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income-Tax Evasion   1940's   February 6, 1942: Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted on Rape Charges   February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders the Internment of Japanese Americans   April 22, 1942: France's Prime Minister Laval Publicly Wishes for Germany to Win World War II   December 5, 1942: Arrest of French Industrialist Bedaux for Collaborating with Nazis Leads to His Apparent Suicide   January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized   February 23, 1943: Thirty-five Children Die in Orphanage Fire in Ireland   June, 1943: Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity   June 5, 1944: Two Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax   May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration   August 14, 1945: World War I Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration   December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Sent to Mental Hospital   November, 1946: Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Sexual Assault of Teenage Boy   November 23, 1946: Tennis Player Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Having Sex with a Teenage Boy   Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties   December, 1947: Norwegian Author Knut Hamsun Is Tried for Treason   July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide   August 4, 1948: Columnist Exposes Corruption of U.S. Congress Member   August 31, 1948: Actor Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Marijuana Possession   November, 1948: Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury   May 27, 1949: Film Star Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Conducting an Adulterous   August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts Damaging Secret Report of French General   February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Bears a Child Out of Wedlock   May 3, 1950: Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime   February 9, 1950: McCarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt for in the U.S. Government   1950's   January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Shave Points for Money   July 16, 1951: Belgium's King Leopold III Abdicates   November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes   1952: McCarthy-Era Politics Keeps Actor Charles Chaplin from Re-Entering the United States   September 23, 1952: Nixon Denies Accepting Illegal Campaign Contributions   December 1, 1952: George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen   November 21, 1953: Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax   October 16, 1954: Heroic War Record of Utah Congress Member Stringfellow Admittedly a Hoax   1955: Actor Rory Calhoun's Criminal Past Is Revealed in Confidential Magazine   Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion Are Revealed   1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes Thousands of Birth Disorders   March, 1956: Australian Conductor-Composer Goosens Is Arrested for Possession of Pornography   June, 1956: Bolshevik-Era Sisson Documents Found to be Fraudulent   June 25, 1956: President Truman's Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy   May, 1957: Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Embezzlement   December 12, 1957: Rock Singer Jerry Lee Lewis Marries His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin   April 4, 1958: Film Star Lana Turner's Daughter Kills Turner's Gangster Lover   September 22, 1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Aide Resigns After He Is Accused of Selling His Influence   November 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren Admits He Was Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show   February 7, 1960: President Kennedy's Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime   February 8, 1960: Congress Investigates "Payola" in Pop Music Industry   March, 1960: FCC Chair Is Forced to Resign After Receiving Gifts from the Communications Industry   1960's   July, 1961: Milgram Begins Controversial Experiments on Obedience to Authority   March 29, 1962: Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud   May 19, 1962: Marilyn Monroe Sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President"   September 12, 1962: British Civil Servant Is Charged with Spying   October 8, 1962: Der Spiegel Magazine Charged with Treason for Its Article on German Defense   1963: National Football League Suspends Paul Hornung and Alex Karras Indefinitely for Betting on Games   February 23, 1963: German Playwright Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy Accuses Catholic Pope Pius XII of Not Resisting the Holocaust   March 2-September 25, 1963: Profumo Affair Rocks British Government   July 2, 1963-February 21, 1965: Paternity Suits Threaten Elijah Muhammad's Leadership in the Black Muslim Movement   August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu Calls Self-Immolating Buddhists a "Monk Barbecue"   October 7, 1963: Johnson Aide Bobby Baker Resigns Over His Dealings with Organized Crime   March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese Is Stabbed to Death as Her Cries for Help Are Ignored   October 7, 1964: President Johnson's Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex Sting   October 29, 1965: Moroccan Opposition Figure Disappears in Paris   March 4, 1966: Munsinger Political Sex Scandal Rocks Canada   March 1, 1967: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress   June 23, 1967: Senator Thomas Dodd Is Censured for Personal Use of Campaign Funds   September 5, 1967: Florida Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband   October, 1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Conspiring to Sell Stock Illegally   Late 1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players Are Implicated in Game Fixing   May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery   July 18, 1969: Senator Ted Kennedy's Driving Accident Leads to Woman's Death   November 16, 1969: Media Breaks Story of U.S. Soldiers' Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai   December 30, 1969: Union Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered   1970: Laud Humphries Publishes His Research on Male Homosexuality in The Tearoom Trade   May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen Kill Four Kent State Students During Antiwar Protest   November, 1970: Dallas Cowboys Football Star Lance Rentzel Is Arrested for Indecent Exposure   May 28, 1970: Irish Cabinet Ministers Haughey and Blaney Are Tried for Attempting to Import Weapons for the IRA   1970's   June 13, 1971: The New York Times Begins Publishing the Pentagon Papers   August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment   January 28, 1972: Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes's Memoirs   June 17, 1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon's Resignation   July 8-22, 1972: Jane Fonda's Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans   July, 1972: Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud   July 25, 1972: Washington Star Breaks Story of Abuses in 1932-1972 Tuskegee Syphilis Study   July 31, 1972: Vice Presidential Candidate Eagleton Withdraws from Race   April, 1973: Federal Judge and Former Illinois Governor Kerner Is Convicted of Bribery, Conspiracy, and Perjury   August, 1973: Cheating Scandal Rocks Soap Box Derby   October 10, 1973: Vice President Agnew Resigns in Disgrace   April 15, 1974: Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Participates in a Bank Robbery   May 14, 1974: The Washington Post Reports that the Nixons Violated Foreign Gifts Act   May 20, 1974: French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in the House of a Prostitute   Mid-1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market   October 7, 1974: Congressman Wilbur Mills's Affair with a Stripper Leads to His Downfall   October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency Because of Gay Sex Scandal   November 20, 1974: British Politician John Stonehouse Attempts to Fake His Suicide   February 3, 1975: Bananagate Bribery Scandal in Honduras Leads to Executive's Suicide   October 31, 1975: Aides to a Buddhist Teacher Force Poet W. S. Merwin and His Companion to Remove Their Clothes at a Halloween Party   February 4, 1976: Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials   September 1, 1976: Former Beatles Singer George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit   March 21, 1976: Champion Skier Vladimir Sabich Is Killed by His Girlfriend   April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating   May 23, 1976: The Washington Post Reports an Affair Between U.S. Representative Wayne Hays and Elizabeth Ray   October 4, 1976: Earl L. Butz Is Forced to Resign as Secretary of Agriculture After Making Racist Remarks   October 14, 1976: Peace Corps Attempts to Cover Up Murder of Volunteer in Tonga   September, 1976: Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter Admits to Having Committed Adultery in His Heart   November 1, 1976: German Generals are Forced into Retirement after Disobeying a Direct Order   1977-1978: U.S. Congress Members Implicated in Bribery Scandal with Koreans   January, 1977: Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights   February, 1977: Hollywood Producer Begelman Found to Have Forged Checks   September 21, 1977: Carter Cabinet Member Bert Lance Resigns After Revelations of His Ethics Violations While Chair of a Georgia Bank   September 23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Rocks Belmont Park Raceway   1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism   1978: Film Star Joan Crawford's Daughter Publishes Damning Tell-All Memoir   February 1, 1978: Filmmaker Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Trial for Statutory Rape   March, 1978: U.S. National Highway Safety Administration Begins Investigation into Defective Firestone Tires   June 27, 1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son   July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Franklin J. Bradshaw Is Murdered   August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Conspiracy to Murder His Male Lover   January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Rockefeller Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances   April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover   June, 1979: South African Prime Minister Vorster Resigns After Being Implicated in an Apartheid-Government Propaganda War   September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company   October 10, 1979: French President Giscard d'Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe in Diamonds   October 11, 1979: Senate Denounces Talmadge for Money Laundering   1980: Biography Claims Actor Errol Flynn Was a Nazi Collaborator   February, 1980: Abscam Investigation Leaked by the Media   February 2, 1980: Media Uncovers FBI Sting that Implicates Dozens of Lawmakers   March 10, 1980: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover   April 3, 1980: Baseball Star Steve Garvey Is Accused of Marital Infidelity   April 27, 1980: Arrest of Gangster Begins Revelation of Boston College Point-shaving Scandal   July, 1980: U.S. President Carter's Brother Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya   September 28, 1980-April 13, 1981: Reporter Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature   October 3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Charged for Sex with a Teenage Male Prostitute   October 9, 1980: Bendix Corporation Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair   December 7, 1980: Rita Jenrette Publishes Diary of a Mad Congresswife   1980's   1981: Chicago's Cardinal Cody Is Investigated for Violations of Federal Income-Tax Law   1981: Appeals Court Upholds Claim that Ford Motor Company Failed to Take Responsibility for Its Dangerous Pinto Model Car   April 29, 1981: Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony   May 23, 1981: Crime Connections Force Italy's Prime Minister Forlani to Resign   June 10, 1981: Conservative Politician Schmitz Has Son Born Out of Wedlock   1982: Banco Ambrosiano Collapses   March 11, 1982: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Accepts Resignations of Philippine Supreme Court   July 18, 1982: Ethics Committee Investigates Drug and Sex Ring Involving House Members and Pages   October 19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John Delorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting   December, 1982: Film Star Julie Andrews and Husband Blake Edwards Deny Rumors They Are Gay   December 16, 1982: Congress Cites Head of Environmental Protection Agency for Contempt   1983: Baseball Commissioner Suspends Hall of Fame Players Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Working in a Casino   April, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Fake Hitler Diaries   August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990: McMartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case   August 21, 1983: Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino, Jr., Is Assassinated the Moment He Returns to the Philippines   October, 1983: British Conservative Politician Is Forced to Resign After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant   January, 1984: Reverend Jesse Jackson Calls New York City "Hymietown"   May 2, 1984: Brokerage Firm E. F. Hutton Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges   July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams Becomes the First Miss America to Resign   October 11, 1984-July 19, 1985: Mayflower Madam Is Indicted for Promoting Prostitution   October 25, 1984: German Politician Resigns After Accepting Bribes from a Corporate Conglomerate   December 22, 1984: Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Young Men   March 4 and April 3, 1985: Religious Leader Da Free John Sued for Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse   July 10, 1985: French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior   August 19, 1985: Head of West German Counterintelligence Defects to East Germany   September 17, 1985: CBC Television Reports that the Canadian Government Permitted the Sale of Tainted Tuna Fish   November, 1985: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Charged with Immigration Fraud   January, 1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher's Government   February, 1986: Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud   March, 1986: Nazi Past of Former U.N. Secretary-General Waldheim Is Revealed   March 1, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Several Pittsburgh Players for Distributing Cocaine   June, 1986: Tennessee Banker and Politician Jacob Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud   November 3, 1986-November 18, 1987: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan's Administration   1987: Guinness Four are Accused in Share-Trading Fraud   January, 1987: Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs   January 22, 1987: Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference   February 25, 1987: NCAA Inflicts "Death Penalty" on Southern Methodist University's Football Program   March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network   April 16, 1987: Indian Government Officials Accused of Illegal Dealings with the Swedish Arms Company Bofors   May 6, 1987: Gary Hart Refuses to Answer Press Questions about Adultery   May 11, 1987: Media Reports on High-Level Police Corruption in Australia   July, 1987: Jeffrey Archer's Libel Trial Against the Daily Star Begins   September 23, 1987: Senator Joseph Biden Drops out of Presidential Race after Revelations of Plagiarism and Exaggeration of His Academic Background   November 28, 1987: African American Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by White Men   December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar's Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings are Revealed   1988: Olympic Sprinter Ben Johnson Is Stripped of Gold Medal and Record After Failing Drug Test   January, 1988: ZZZZ Best Company Founder Is Indicted on Fraud Charges   February 21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery   June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government   July, 1988: Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes Himself Having Sex with a Minor   November 10, 1988: Stephen Breuning Is Convicted on Charges of Academic Fraud   1989: Greek Prime Minister Papandreou Is Indicted for His Role in the Embezzlement of Bank Funds   1989: Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud   March 23, 1989: Scientists' Claims to Have Achieved Cold Fusion Cannot Be Verified   May 31, 1989: House Speaker Jim Wright Resigns Over Accusations He Earned Excessive Speaking Fees   August 10, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha   August 20, 1989-March 20, 1996: Menendez Brothers Are Indicted for Murdering their Parents   August 24, 1989: Pete Rose Is Banned From Baseball for Betting on Games   December 3, 1989: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Publicly Revealed   December 15-20, 1989: Romanian Dictator Ceau{scedil}escu Represses Communist Leaders   December 18, 1989: Crown Prince Charles's Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped   1990: New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Is Banned from Baseball for Life   January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Crack Cocaine Use and Possession   June 22, 1990: George W. Bush Is Accused of Insider Trading   November 16, 1990: Lip-Synching Pop Music Duo Milli Vanilli Loses Grammy   1990's   March 30, 1991: William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape   June 24, 1991: Report Shows that the Bank of Credit and Commerce International Held Accounts for Terrorist Groups and Committed Global Fraud   July 26, 1991: Comedian Pee Wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency   October, 1991: Sexual Harassment Charges Dominate Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings   1992: Members of Congress are Found to Be Using Overdrafts at the House Bank for Their Personal Benefit   January 13, 1992: Woody Allen Has an Affair with Lover Mia Farrow's Adopted Daughter   February 10, 1992: Boxing Champion Mike Tyson Is Convicted of Rape   April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Begins Prison Sentence   May, 1992: Relationship of Irish Bishop Eamon Casey and Annie Murphy Becomes Public   May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco   June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in Wake of Tailhook Sexual Harassment Scandal   August 23, 1992: Publication of Princess Diana's Phone Conversation with Her Lover Reveals Her Adultery   September 24, 1992: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Romantic Affair Becomes Public   June 23, 1993: Lorena Bobbit Severs Her Husband's Penis   1994: U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal   January 5, 1994: British Conservative Politician Timothy Yeo Resigns over a Child Fathered out of Wedlock   January 6, 1994: Figure Skater Harding Is Banned from Competition After Attack on Rival Nancy Kerrigan   January 12, 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman Are Found Murdered   February 21, 1994: CIA Agent Aldrich Ames Is Arrested for Spying for Russia   April 28, 1994: U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating   mid-1994: Argentine Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from the World Cup Competition   June 27, 1994: Time Magazine Publishes Altered Cover Mug Shot of Murder Suspect O. J. Simpson   August, 1994: Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Chavis, Jr.   August, 1994: Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation   1995: Airbus Affair Implicates Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Taking Kickbacks   February 28, 1995: Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Orders the Arrest of Raul Salinas, Brother of Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas   June 27, 1995: Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct   August, 1995: Whistleblower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption   Spring, 1996: Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article   November, 1996: Irish Politician Michael Lowry Resigns Over Accusations of His Corrupt Business Dealings with the Private Sector   November 3, 1996: Susurluk Car Crash Unveils Evidence that Turkish Politicians and Police Are Involved with Organized Crime   1997: Swiss Banks Are Found to Hold Accounts of Thousands of Holocaust Victims   1997: Joseph Ralston Removes Himself from Consideration as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Following Revelation of an Adulterous Affair   January, 1997: Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall   February 26, 1997: Washington State Schoolteacher Is Arrested for Statutory Rape   March 12, 1997: Wanda Koolmatrie Hoax   March 18, 1997: Widespread Corruption Is Uncovered in Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division   May 20, 1997: Prosecution of Female Air Force Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard in Military   August 31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash   September 22, 1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert Goes on Trial for Abusing a Sex Partner   November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood   December, 1997: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted on Charges of Conspiracy, Giving False Evidence, and Obstruction of Justice   1998: Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism   January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Formally Denies Having Had Sex with a White House Intern   February, 1998: Belgian Police Bungle Investigation of Serial Murder Case   April 7, 1998: Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct   May 18, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Publishes a Story that Leads to the Discovery That Many of His Publications Had Been Largely Fabricated   December 23, 1998: Belgian Politicians Are Found Guilty of Bribery in Agusta-Helicopter Contract Scandal   1999: Canada's Ethics Commissioner Exonerates Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in Shawinigate Scandal   January, 1999: International Olympic Committee Members Resign After Being Bribed into Voting for 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, Utah   March, 1999: Quebec Offers to Compensate Duplessis Orphans for Their Abuse in Government Orphanages   March 8, 1999: Yogesh Gandhi, of the Gandhi Memorial International, Is Charged with Tax Evasion, Perjury, and Fraud   May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers Child out of Wedlock   November 5, 1999: Donation to Germany's Christian Democratic Union by Arms Dealer Leads to the Arrest of the Party's Former Treasurer for Tax Evasion   2000: American Academics are Accused of Intentionally Starting a Deadly Measles Epidemic in the Amazon River Basin   2000: Andreea Raducan Becomes First Olympic Gymnast Stripped of a Medal Because of Drugs   January 28, 2000: John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of New York Islanders Hockey Team   May 3, 2000: New York Post Publishes Photos of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with His "Very Good Friend" Judith Nathan   August 13, 2000: Three Whales Corruption Scandal Begins in Russia   September, 2000: Spain Cheats to Win the Paralympic Basketball Competition at the Sydney Olympic Games   September 19, 2000: Spokesperson for Ex-Gay Movement Photographed in a Gay Bar   November 5, 2000: Discoveries of Japanese Archaeologist Are Proven to Have Been Faked   December, 2000: French Social Services Alert Prosecutors to Sexual Abuse of Children, Beginning the Outreau Affair   2000's   2001: Clearstream Scandal Rocks Europe   2001: Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns After Falsifying His Resume   2001: Pemex Oil Company Corruption Scandal Erupts in Mexico   April 30, 2001: Washington, D.C., Intern Chandra Levy Disappears   January, 2001: Alder Hey Report Reveals Organs Scandal in England   January 8, 2001: Former Louisiana Governor Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges   February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians   June, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Confesses to Lying   June 30, 2001: Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Wanted for Rape   August 31, 2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Revealed to Be Over Age   October 7, 2001: Australian Prime Minister John Howard Claims that "Boat People" Throw Their Children Overboard   December 2, 2001: Enron's Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud   2002: Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy   2002: British Politician Edwina Currie Claims to Have Had an Affair with John Major   2002: University of Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick Resigns over Scandals   January 6, 2002: Boston Globe Publishes Its First Report on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests   January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism   January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism   February, 2002: French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Skaters in Winter Olympics   February 16, 2002: Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory   April, 2002: Genetically Modified Seeds Found in New Zealand's Corn Crop   Mid-2002: Renowned Immunologist Resigns Professorship After Being Charged with Falsifying His Research   June, 2002: Singer R. Kelly Is Indicted for Having Sex with a Minor   September 5, 2002: German Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Found to Have Faked His Research Findings   October, 2002: Emory University Finds Flaws in a Controversial Work by Historian Michael Bellesiles   December 5, 2002: Mississippi Senator Trent Lott Praises 1948 Presidential Campaign of Strom Thurmond   November, 2003: Still Images of a Sex Tape of Actor-Model Paris Hilton and Her Boyfriend First Appear on the World Wide Web   2003: California Gubernatorial Candidate Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Accused of Having Groped Women   January, 2003: South Korea Found to Have Paid Millions of Dollars to North Korea to Ensure Its >Participation in the 2000 Inter-Korean Summit   January 2, 2003: U.S. Air Force Academy Sexual Assault Scandal Begins   March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Accused of Spying on the United Nations Security Council   April 28, 2003: New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Accused of Plagiarizing a Story About a Missing U.S. Soldier in Iraq   May, 2003: Controversial Film The Brown Bunny Premiers at the Cannes Film Festival   May, 2003: University of Alabama Rescinds Contract of New Football Coach Because of Negative Publicity about His Behavior   June 30, 2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape   July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Reveals the Name of an Undercover CIA Operative   September, 2003: Mutual Fund Companies are Found to Be Involved in Shady Practices   October 10, 2003: Radio Broadcaster Rush Limbaugh Admits to Drug Addiction   December 17, 2003: Dan Rather Interviews the Illegitimate Biracial Daughter of Strom Thurmond   December 18, 2003: Singer Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation   2004: Mexican Politicians Are Videotaped Taking Bribes   January, 2004: Pakistani Nuclear Pioneer Admits to Aiding in Sales of Nuclear Weapons Technology   March 5, 2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted for Insider Trading and Lying to Authorities   May 6, 2004: Former U.S. Politician and Governor of Oregon Admits to a Sexual Affair with a Teenage Girl   May 19, 2004: Former Head of United Way Is Convicted of Embezzlement   August 30, 2004: Anti-Gay Congressman Edward Schrock Is Involved in Gay Sex Scandal   September 8, 2004: CBS News Documents George W. Bush's Evasion of Wartime Duty   October 13, 2004: Television Producer Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against Commentator Bill O'Reilly   October 14, 2004: New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Announces Legal Action Against Insurance Brokerage Firm Marsh & Mclennan   October 28, 2004: U.N. Report Reveals Secretary General Kofi Annan Had Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges   2005: Liberian Workers Accuse Bridgestone Firestone of Slave Labor   January, 2005: German Football Association and Prosecutors Begin Investigating Referee for Fixing Matches   January 15, 2005: U.N. Diplomat Iqbal Riza Resigns in Oil-for-Food Scandal   February 2, 2005: Logan Young Becomes the First College Football Booster to Be Convicted on Criminal Charges of Providing Inducements to a Player   March, 2005: India's Most Wanted Television Program Shows Bollywood Stars Forcing Young Women into Sex   March 17, 2005: Baseball Slugger Mark McGwire Refuses to Cooperate with Congressional Investigation   June 22, 2005: U.S. Air Force Investigates Claims of Religious Intolerance at Its Academy   July 1, 2005: Federal Agents Raid the Home of California Congressman Duke Cunningham   August 8, 2005: Russian U.N. Official Alexander Yakovlev Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Money Laundering   September 12, 2005: Westar Energy Head David Wittig Is Convicted of Looting the Company   September 23, 2005: Brazilian Magazine Veja Reveals Soccer Match-Fixing Scandal   September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper's Publication of Prophet Muhammad Published Cartoons Stir Violent Protests   October 6, 2005: Minnesota Vikings Football Players Reportedly Have a Sex Party on a Boat   December 6, 2005: Jim West Is Recalled as Mayor of Spokane, Washington, in Child Molestation Scandal   2006-2007: Subprime Mortgage Industry Collapses   January 3, 2006: Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty to Three Felony Counts of Defrauding American Indian Tribes   January 9, 2006: Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay Resigns   January 21, 2006: British Politician Resigns Over Having a Sex Orgy with Male Prostitutes   February 11, 2006: Vice President Dick Cheney Shoots a Friend in Hunting Accident   March 13-14, 2006: Duke Lacrosse Team Is Accused of Gang Rape   March 18, 2006: Austrian Novelist Peter Handke Speaks at the Funeral of Yugoslav War Criminal Milošević   April 29, 2006: British Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with His Secretary   May, 2006: Italian Police Uncover a Soccer Match-Fixing Scandal   May 12, 2006: South Korean Cloning Researcher Is Charged with Faking Research   Mid-2006-March 16, 2007: China Recalls Pet Food That Has Killed Thousands of American Pets   July, 2006-July, 2007: Tour de France Faces Massive Doping Scandal   July 14, 2006: The New York Times Reports on Bogus Classes Offered to Athletes at Auburn University   July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Makes Anti-Semitic Remarks When Arrested for Drunk Driving   August 12, 2006: German Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Having Been a Member of the Waffen-SS in World War II   September, 2006: Husband of the New Zealand Prime Minister Is Reported to Be Gay   September 5, 2006: Newsweek Magazine Reveals That the Chair of Hewlett-Packard Had Hired Security Experts Who Spied on Board Members and Journalists   September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley Resigns Because of Sex Scandal Involving Teenage Page   October, 2006: Revelations of Irregularities in the Chilean Government Sports Organization Leads to Series of Scandals   November 15-20, 2006: Fox News Abandons Plan to Publish O. J. Simpson Book   November 1, 2006: Former Russian Security Officer Alexander Litvinenko Agent Is Hospitalized for Radiation Poisoning in England   November 2, 2006: Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard   November 2, 2006: Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Found Guilty of Federal Tax Violations   November 9, 2006: South African Businessman Schabir Shaik Enters Prison   December 19, 2006: Moriarty Tribunal Reports on Illegal Financial Dealings of Former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey   February 18, 2007: Deplorable Conditions in Walter Reed Army Hospital Are Exposed   April 4, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus's Racist Lead to Cancellation of His Radio Show   April 26, 2007: Indian Court Issues an Arrest Warrant for American Actor Richard Gere and Indian Actor Shilpa Shetty   April 27, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick admits to Killing Dogs and Bankrolling a Dog-Fighting Ring.   May 28, 2007: Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself   June 4, 2007: Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption   July, 2007: Louisiana Senator David Vitter's Name Is Found in Washington Madam's Address Book   July 9, 2007: National Basketball Association Referee Resigns After He Is Accused of Betting on Games   July 11, 2007: Florida Republican Politician Bob Allen Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer   July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Falsification of Research Data   August, 2007: Chinese Toy Manufacturer Commits Suicide Over Consumer Safety Scandal   September, 2007: National Football League Punishes the New England Patriots and Their Coach for Spying on Other Teams   October, 2007: Former Olympic Sprint Champion Marion Jones Admits to Using Steroids and Lying to Investigators   December 28, 2007: Mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina Relief Is Widely Assailed   March, 2008: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns After He Admits to Using a Call-Girl Service

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