Scandals 1904 - 2008 National Scandals American Scandals Fraud Jail Crime Bribes Treason Murder Sex Rape Violence

v. 1. 1904-1972 -- 1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds -- January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery -- December, 1904: 

Scandals 1904  -  2008  National Scandals American Scandals Fraud Jail Crime Bribes Treason Murder Sex Rape Violence

Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud -- 1906-1909: Emperor William Ii's Homosexual "Circle" Scandalizes Germany -- March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children -- June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White -- July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason -- December 8, 1906: Former U.S. 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: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin -- March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire -- January, 1913: British Prime Minister's Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading -- January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office -- February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public -- May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution -- April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match -- May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks -- July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances -- 1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes are Revealed as Investment Frauds -- September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in "Black Sox" Scandal -- July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation -- February 1, 1922: Director Taylor's Murder Ruins Mabel Normand's Acting Career -- March 26, 1922: Hindemith's Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun's Sexual Desires -- April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter -- June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors -- January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid's Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry -- March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud -- May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty's Aide Commits Suicide -- October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases -- January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand's Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines -- May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act -- October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government -- November 19, 1924: Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies after Weekend on Hearst's Yacht -- July, 1925: Nosferatu is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright -- May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She was Kidnapped -- December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games -- 1927: Mae West's Play about Gays is Banned on Broadway -- 1927: President Warren G. Harding's Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir -- Early 1928: Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria Swanson -- 1928-1929: Actor is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian -- March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit -- June 6, 1929: Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience -- November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry -- 1930: Liberia is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery -- May, 1930: Postmaster's Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal -- December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L'Age d'or Provokes French Rioting -- March 30, 1931: "Scottsboro Boys" are Railroaded through Rape Trials -- 1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts 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 Reports of a Soviet Famine -- January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936 Stavisky's Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government -- May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel -- July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee -- December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd's Death cannot be Explained -- May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns after Budget Information Leak -- Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor's Diary becomes a Public Sensation -- December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcee -- March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption -- September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths -- October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany -- May 22, 1939: Kansas City's Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion -- February 6, 1942: Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape

February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans -- April 22, 1942: French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II -- December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration -- January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized -- February 23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-Five Girls -- June 4, 1943: Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity -- June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax -- May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration -- May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason -- August 14, 1945: French War Hero Petain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration -- December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized -- November 23, 1946: Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor -- Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties -- July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison -- August 4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman's Corruption -- August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession -- May 27, 1949: Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan after Adulterous Affair -- August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General's Damaging Report -- January 21, 1950: Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury -- February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock -- February 9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph Mccarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt -- May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime -- January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money -- July 16, 1951: Belgium's Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates -- November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns after Accepting Bribes -- September 19, 1952: Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States -- September 23, 1952: Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions -- December 1, 1952: George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen -- November 21, 1953: Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax -- May, 1955: Scandal Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun's Criminal Past -- Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion are Revealed -- 1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders -- March 9, 1956: British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography -- June, 1956: George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents are Fakes -- June 25, 1956: President Truman's Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy -- December 12, 1957: Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin -- April 4, 1958: Actor Lana Turner's Daughter Kills Turner's Gangster Lover -- September 22, 1958: President Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling -- May, 1959: Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud -- November 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show -- February 7, 1960: President Kennedy's Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime -- February 8, 1960: U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry -- March 14, 1960: Fcc Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks -- July, 1961: Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments -- 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 Arrested for Spying -- October 26, 1962: West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices -- February 23, 1963: Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust -- March 2-September 25, 1963: John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government -- July 2, 1963: Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad Is Sued for Paternity -- August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists -- October 7, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections -- March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help are Ignored -- October 7, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson's Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex Sting -- October 29, 1965: Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris -- March 4, 1966: Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada -- March 1, 1967: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress -- June 23, 1967: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds -- September 5, 1967: Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband -- November 28, 1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally -- May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery -- July 18, 1969: Senator Edward Kennedy's Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne -- Fall, 1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players are Implicated in Game Fixing -- November 13, 1969: American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed -- December 30, 1969: United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered -- 1970: Study of Anonymous Gay Sex Leads to Ethics Scandal -- May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen Kill Protesting Kent State Students -- May 28, 1970: Irish Politicians are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons -- June 13, 1971: New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers -- August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment -- January 28, 1972: Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs -- June 17, 1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon's Resignation -- June 22, 1972: Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud -- July 8-22, 1972: Jane Fonda's Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans

v. 2. 1972-1998 -- July 25, 1972: Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- July 31, 1972: Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race -- August 19, 1973: Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box Derby -- October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace -- April 15, 1974: Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank -- May 14, 1974: Washington Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts -- May 20, 1974: French Cardinal Danielou Dies in a Prostitute's House -- Summer, 1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market -- October 7, 1974: Congressman Wilbur D. Mills's Stripper Affair Leads to His Downfall -- October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal -- November 20, 1974: British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide -- February 3, 1975: Honduras's "Bananagate" Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive's Suicide -- October 31, 1975: Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their Clothes -- 1976: Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer in Tonga -- 1976-1977: U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in Koreagate Scandal -- February 4, 1976: Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials -- March 21, 1976: Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion Vladimir Sabich -- April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams -- May 23, 1976: Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays's Affair -- September 1, 1976: Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit -- September, 1976: Jimmy Carter Admits Committing Adultery in His Heart -- October 4, 1976: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke -- November 9, 1976: German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot -- January, 1977: Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights -- February 25, 1977: Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks -- September 21, 1977: Carter Cabinet Member Resigns Over Ethics Violations -- September 23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway -- 1978: Actor Joan Crawford's Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir, Mommie Dearest -- 1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism -- February 1, 1978: Roman Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial -- June 27, 1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son -- July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson -- August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder -- October 20, 1978: Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires -- January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously -- April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover -- June 4, 1979: South African President B.J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal -- September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company -- October 10, 1979: French President Giscard d'Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe -- October 11, 1979: Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering -- November 29, 1979, and January 31, 1983: Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties -- 1980: Biographer Claims Actor Errol Flynn was a Nazi Spy -- February 2, 1980: Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers -- March 10, 1980: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover -- April 27, 1980: Mobster's Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players -- Late July, 1980: President's Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya -- July 28, 1980: Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey's Marital Problems -- September 3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy -- October 9, 1980: Bendix Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair -- December 7, 1980: Rita Jenrette's "Diary of a Mad Congresswife" Scandalizes Washington -- April 15, 1981: Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature -- April 28, 1981: Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony -- May 23, 1981: Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection -- May 29, 1981: Court Finds That Ford Ignored Pinto's Safety Problems -- September 10, 1981: Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted Church Funds -- May 11, 1982: Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign -- July 20, 1982: Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have Children Out of Wedlock -- August 6, 1982: Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations -- October 19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting -- December, 1982: Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards Deny Being Gay -- December 16, 1982: Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt -- April 25, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries -- July 20, 1983: Congress Members Censured in House-Page Sex Scandal -- August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990: Mcmartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case -- August 21, 1983: Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home -- October 14, 1983: British Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant -- January 25, 1984: Jesse Jackson Calls New York City "Hymietown" -- May 2, 1984: E.F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud -- July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign -- December 22, 1984: Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths -- 1985-1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher's Government -- May 7, 1985: Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud -- July 10, 1985: French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior -- July 19, 1985: Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to Promoting Prostitution -- August 19, 1985: West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany -- September 17, 1985: Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna -- October 23, 1985: Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud -- February 28, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use

March 3, 1986: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's Nazi Past Is Revealed -- April 22, 1986: Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud -- November 13, 1986-May 4, 1989: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan's Administration -- January 12 and May 11, 1987: Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption -- January 22, 1987: Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference -- February 25, 1987: NCAA Imposes "Death Penalty" on Southern Methodist University Football -- March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network -- April 9, 1987: Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs -- July 25, 1987: Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star -- September 23, 1987: Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign -- November 28, 1987: Black Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by Police Officers -- December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar's Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed -- January 15, 1988: ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges -- February 21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery -- June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government -- July 18, 1988: Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor -- September 19, 1988: Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud -- March 23, 1989: Scientists' "Cold Fusion" Claims Cannot be Verified -- March 29, 1989: Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud -- May 31, 1989: Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal -- August 10, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha -- 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 Revealed -- December 15-25, 1989: Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution -- December 18, 1989: Prince Charles's Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped -- January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use -- March, 1990: Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents -- August 27, 1990: Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud -- November 19, 1990: Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award -- March 30, 1991: William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape -- April 5, 1991: George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading -- July 26, 1991: Comedian Pee-Wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency -- October 11-13, 1991: Justice Clarence Thomas's Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal -- January 13, 1992: Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow's Adopted Daughter -- April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion -- May 6, 1992: Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey's Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation -- May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco -- June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal -- August 23, 1992: Princess Diana's Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public -- September 24, 1992: British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns Over Romantic Affair -- June 23, 1993: Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband's Penis -- January 5, 1994: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock -- April 28, 1994: U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating -- June 1, 1994: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal -- June 12, 1994: Double Murder Leads to Sensational O.J. Simpson Trial -- June 24, 1994: Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O.J. Simpson Photo -- June 30, 1994: Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on Rival -- July 1, 1994: Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup -- August 5, 1994: Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation -- August 21, 1994: Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of Naacp Chief Benjamin Chavis -- February 28, 1995: Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas's Brother Is Arrested for Murder -- June 27, 1995: Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct -- November 18, 1995: Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal -- February 4, 1996: Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption -- Spring, 1996: Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article -- August 16, 1996: Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case -- November 3, 1996: Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey -- January, 1997: Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall -- February 26, 1997: Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is Arrested for Statutory Rape -- March 12, 1997: Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud -- May 20, 1997: Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard -- June 25, 1997: Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims -- August 31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash -- September 22, 1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual Assault -- November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood -- December 11, 1997: Hud Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents -- January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern

v. 3. 1998-2008 -- April, 1998: Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism -- April 7, 1998: Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct -- May, 1998: Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles's Rampart Division -- May 11, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud -- December 23, 1998: Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal -- March 4, 1999: Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans -- May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock -- May 7, 1999-March 2, 2001: Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- January 28, 2000: John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team -- May 2, 2000: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Extramarital Affair is Revealed -- May 9, 2000: Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges -- September, 2000: American Scientists Are Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon -- September 19, 2000: Ex-Gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a Gay Bar -- September 26, 2000: Gymnast Andreea Raducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs -- November 5, 2000: Japanese Amateur Archaeologist'S "Discoveries" are Proven Fakes -- December, 2000: Sexual Abuse of Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair -- 2001: Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering -- January 30, 2001: Liverpool Children's Hospital Collects Body Parts Without Authorization -- February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians -- April 30, 2001: Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears -- June 18, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying -- June 30, 2001: Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape -- August 27, 2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found to be Overage -- December 2, 2001: Enron Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud -- December 14, 2001: Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying his Resume -- January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism -- January 6, 2002: Boston Globe Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests -- January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism -- February 11, 2002: French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics -- February 17, 2002: Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory -- March 27, 2002: Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns Over Fraud Allegations -- June 25, 2002: Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy -- July, 2002: Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds in New Zealand -- August, 2002: Immunologist Resigns After Being Accused of Falsifying Research -- September 25, 2002: Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schon Faked his Research -- September 28, 2002: British Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John Major -- October 25, 2002: Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations -- December 5, 2002: Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond's 1948 Presidential Campaign -- January 2, 2003: E-Mail Message Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults -- March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to Have Spied on U.N. Officials -- April 29, 2003: New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud -- May 3, 2003: University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in Sex Scandal -- May 21, 2003: Sexually Provocative Film the Brown Bunny Premieres at Cannes Film Festival -- July 1, 2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape -- July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame -- September 3, 2003: Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices -- October 2, 2003: Newspaper Claims That Arnold Schwarzenegger Groped Women -- Early November, 2003: Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web -- December 17, 2003: Senator Strom Thurmond's Biracial Daughter Is Revealed -- December 18, 2003: Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation -- March 4, 2004: Former United Way Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement -- March 5, 2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading Scandal -- April 28, 2004: CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib -- June 2, 2004: U.N. Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges -- August 19, 2004: Blog "Outs" Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock -- September 8, 2004: 60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush's Evasion of Wartime Duty -- October 13, 2004: Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O'reilly -- October 14, 2004: Insurance Brokerage Marsh & Mclennan Is Charged with Fraud -- January 15, 2005: Iqbal Riza Resigns from the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal -- January 27, 2005: German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for Money -- March 17, 2005: Former Baseball Star Mark Mcgwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use -- June 22, 2005: U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at Its Academy -- July 1, 2005: Federal Agents Raid Congressman Randall Cunningham's Home -- Beginning August 29, 2005: Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts -- September 12, 2005: Westar Energy Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company -- September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper's Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests -- November 17, 2005: Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone Over Slave Labor -- December 6, 2005: Spokane, Washington, Mayor Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal -- January 21, 2006: British Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy -- March 14, 2006: Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape -- April 26, 2006: Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary -- May 4, 2006: Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer -- May 12, 2006: Scientist Is Indicted for Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells -- Summer, 2006-March 16, 2007: Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food that Killed Thousands of American Pets -- July 14, 2006: New York Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University -- July 26, 2006: Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal -- July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-Semitic Remarks -- August 12, 2006: Novelist Gunter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties -- September 17, 2006: New Zealand Prime Minister's Husband Is "Outed" as Gay -- September 18, 2006: Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard Spied on Its Own Board -- September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page -- October 22, 2006: Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns -- November 2, 2006: Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations -- November 2, 2006: Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard -- November 20, 2006: News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O.J. Simpson's Book -- November 23, 2006: Former Russian Security Service Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning -- Early 2007: Subprime Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse -- February 18, 2007: Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital -- April 11, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His Radio Show Over Sexist and Racist Remarks -- May 28, 2007: Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself -- June 4, 2007: Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption -- July 9, 2007: Senator David Vitter's Name Is Found in D.C. Madam's Address Book -- July 11, 2007: Florida Politician Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer -- July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification -- August 20, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dogfighting Ring -- September 13, 2007: New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams -- October 5, 2007: Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use -- March 12, 2008: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal -- June 13, 2008: Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges -- July 29, 2008: NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games -- September 7, 2008: Financial Institutions and Markets Begin to Collapse