Modern Scandals: 1904 - 2008 (Great Events from History)

Publisher’s Note......Page 12
Contributors......Page 16
Keyword List of Contents......Page 20
Volume 1: 1904–1972  ......Page 4
Contents, Volume 1  ......Page 6
1904:   Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting  Corporate Funds......Page 38
January 23, 1904:   Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery......Page 41
December, 1904:   Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud......Page 43
1906-1909: Emperor William II’s Homosexual “Circle”  Scandalizes Germany......Page 46
March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones Is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children......Page 49
June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White......Page 53
July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason......Page 56
December 8, 1906: Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover......Page 59
1907: Elinor Glyn’s Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers......Page 62
June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion......Page 65
November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II......Page 68
1909-1916: Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with  Millionaire Heir......Page 71
1910: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist  Paul Langevin......Page 74
March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire......Page 77
January, 1913: British Prime Minister’s Staff Is Investigated  for Insider Trading......Page 80
January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting  from His Office......Page 83
February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public......Page 86
May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting  Prostitution......Page 89
April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United  Soccer Match......Page 92
May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions  Shortages and Military Setbacks......Page 95
July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances......Page 97
1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Frauds......Page 100
September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in  “Black Sox” Scandal......Page 103
July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality  Investigation......Page 107
February 1, 1922: Director Taylor’s Murder Ruins Mabel Normand’s Acting Career......Page 110
March 26, 1922: Hindemith’s Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun’s  Sexual Desires......Page 113
April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of  Manslaughter......Page 116
June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is  Accused of Selling Honors......Page 120
January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid’s Death in Drug Rehab  Shakes Film Industry......Page 123
March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud......Page 126
May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s Aide Commits Suicide......Page 129
October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome  Oil Leases......Page 132
January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand’s Chauffeur Shoots  Millionaire Courtland S. Dines......Page 137
May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley Is  Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act......Page 140
October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British  Government......Page 142
November 19, 1924: Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies After Weekend  on Hearst’s Yacht......Page 145
July, 1925: Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright......Page 148
May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped......Page 152
1927: Mae West’s Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway......Page 159
1927: President Warren G. Harding’s Lover Publishes  Tell-All Memoir......Page 161
Early 1928: Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with  Gloria Swanson......Page 164
1928-1929:Actor Is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian......Page 167
March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed  Genetically and Mentally Unfit......Page 170
June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian  Audience......Page 173
November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts  French Inquiry......Page 176
1930: Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens  into Slavery......Page 179
May, 1930:Postmaster’s Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal......Page 181
December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L’Âge d’or Provokes French Rioting......Page 184
March 30, 1931: “Scottsboro Boys” Are Railroaded Through  Rape Trials......Page 187
1932:Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation......Page 191
July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington......Page 193
September 4, 1932: Film Star Jean Harlow’s Husband Is an Apparent Suicide......Page 197
January 20, 1933: Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase......Page 200
March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a   Soviet Famine......Page 204
January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936: Stavisky’s Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government......Page 207
May 16, 1934:General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel......Page 210
July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee......Page 213
December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd’s Death Cannot Be Explained......Page 215
May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Budget Information Leak......Page 218
Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation......Page 221
December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée......Page 224
March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption......Page 228
September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths......Page 230
October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany......Page 233
May 22, 1939: Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion......Page 236
February 6, 1942: Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape......Page 239
February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans......Page 242
April 22, 1942:French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II......Page 246
December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for  Nazi Collaboration......Page 249
January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and   Institutionalized......Page 251
February 23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-five Girls......Page 254
June 4, 1943: Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity......Page 257
June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for  a Literary Hoax......Page 260
May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for   Nazi Collaboration......Page 263
May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested   for Treason......Page 266
August 14, 1945: French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration......Page 269
December 14, 1945 Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized......Page 273
November 23, 1946: Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor......Page 276
Spring, 1947:Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for  Gambling Ties......Page 279
July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison......Page 282
August 4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman’s Corruption......Page 285
August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for  Drug Possession......Page 288
May 27, 1949: Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Adulterous Affair......Page 291
August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General’s  Damaging Report......Page 294
January 21, 1950:  Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury......Page 296
February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out  of Wedlock......Page 300
February 9, 1950 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches Communist  Witch Hunt......Page 303
May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating  Organized Crime......Page 307
January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points  for Money......Page 311
July 16, 1951:  Belgium’s Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates......Page 313
November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes......Page 316
September 19, 1952:Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States......Page 320
September 23, 1952: Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign  Contributions......Page 323
December 1, 1952: George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen......Page 326
November 21, 1953: Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax......Page 329
May, 1955: Scandal Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun’s Criminal Past......Page 332
Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion Are Revealed......Page 335
1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders......Page 338
March 9, 1956: British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography......Page 341
June, 1956: George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents Are Fakes......Page 344
June 25, 1956: President Truman’s Appointments Secretary Is  Convicted of Tax Conspiracy......Page 347
December 12, 1957: Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin......Page 350
April 4, 1958: Actor Lana Turner’s Daughter Kills Turner’s Gangster Lover......Page 354
September 22, 1958: President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling......Page 357
May, 1959: Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud......Page 360
November 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on  Television Quiz Show......Page 363
February 7, 1960: President Kennedy’s Romantic Affair Links Him to  Organized Crime......Page 366
February 8, 1960: U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry......Page 369
March 14, 1960: FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks......Page 372
July, 1961: Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments......Page 375
March 29, 1962: Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud......Page 378
May 19, 1962: Marilyn Monroe Sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President......Page 381
September 12, 1962: British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying......Page 384
October 26, 1962: West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices......Page 386
February 23, 1963: Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust......Page 390
March 2-September 25, 1963: John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government......Page 392
July 2, 1963: Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad Is Sued  for Paternity......Page 396
August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists......Page 399
October 7, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections......Page 402
March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help  Are Ignored......Page 406
October 7, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson’s Aide Is Arrested in  Gay-Sex Sting......Page 408
October 29, 1965: Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris......Page 411
March 4, 1966: Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada......Page 414
March 1, 1967: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress......Page 417
June 23, 1967:Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds......Page 421
September 5, 1967: Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband......Page 423
November 28, 1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally......Page 426
May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery......Page 428
July 18, 1969: Senator Edward Kennedy’s Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne......Page 431
Fall, 1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players Are Implicated in Game Fixing......Page 435
November 13, 1969:American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed......Page 438
December 30, 1969: United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered......Page 441
1970: Study of Anonymous Gay Sex Leads to Ethics Scandal......Page 444
May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen Kill Protesting  Kent State Students......Page 447
May 28, 1970: Irish Politicians Are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons......Page 450
June 13, 1971: New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers......Page 453
August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment......Page 457
January 28, 1972: Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs......Page 459
June 17, 1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon’s Resignation......Page 462
June 22, 1972: Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud......Page 468
July 8-22, 1972: Jane Fonda’s Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans......Page 471
Volume 2: 1972–1998  ......Page 476
Contents, Volume 2  ......Page 478
July 25, 1972: Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee  Syphilis Study......Page 500
July 31, 1972: Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race......Page 503
August 19, 1973: Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box Derby......Page 507
October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace......Page 510
April 15, 1974; Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank......Page 513
May 14, 1974: Washington Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts......Page 516
May 20, 1974: French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute’s  House......Page 519
Summer, 1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from   the Market......Page 522
October 7, 1974: Congressman Wilbur D. Mills’s Stripper Affair   Leads to His Downfall......Page 525
October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College   Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal......Page 528
November 20, 1974:   British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide......Page 531
February 3, 1975: Honduras’s “Bananagate” Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive’s Suicide......Page 534
October 31, 1975: Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove  Their Clothes......Page 537
1976: Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer  in Tonga......Page 539
1976-1977: U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in  Koreagate Scandal......Page 542
February 4, 1976: Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials......Page 545
March 21, 1976: Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion Vladimir Sabich......Page 548
April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams......Page 551
May 23, 1976: Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays’s   Affair......Page 554
September 1, 1976: Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit......Page 557
September, 1976: Jimmy Carter Admits Committing Adultery in His Heart......Page 560
October 4, 1976: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke......Page 563
November 9, 1976: German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot......Page 566
January, 1977: Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights......Page 569
February 25, 1977: Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks......Page 572
September 21, 1977: Carter Cabinet Member Resigns over Ethics  Violations......Page 574
September 23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway......Page 577
1978: Actor Joan Crawford’s Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir, Mommie Dearest......Page 580
1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism......Page 583
February 1, 1978: Roman Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial......Page 585
June 27, 1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son......Page 588
July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson......Page 591
August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder......Page 594
October 20, 1978: Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires......Page 597
January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously......Page 600
April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to  Former Lover......Page 603
June 4, 1979: South African President B. J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal......Page 606
September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company......Page 609
October 10, 1979: French President Giscard d’Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe......Page 613
October 11, 1979: Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering......Page 616
November 29, 1979, and January 31, 1983: Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties......Page 619
February 2, 1980: Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers......Page 624
March 10, 1980: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover......Page 628
April 27, 1980: Mobster’s Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players......Page 631
Late July, 1980: President’s Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya......Page 634
July 28, 1980: Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey’s Marital Problems......Page 637
September 3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy......Page 640
October 9, 1980: Bendix Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair......Page 643
December 7, 1980: Rita Jenrette’s “Diary of a Mad Congresswife”  Scandalizes Washington......Page 645
April 15, 1981: Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature......Page 648
April 28, 1981: Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony......Page 651
May 23, 1981: Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection......Page 654
May 29, 1981: Court Finds That Ford Ignored Pinto’s Safety Problems......Page 657
September 10, 1981: Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal CodyDiverted Church Funds......Page 660
May 11, 1982: Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign......Page 663
July 20, 1982: Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have Children Out of Wedlock......Page 666
August 6, 1982: Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations......Page 669
October 19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting......Page 672
December, 1982: Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards Deny Being Gay......Page 675
December 16, 1982: Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt......Page 678
April 25, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries......Page 681
July 20, 1983: Congress Members Censured in House-Page  Sex Scandal......Page 684
August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990: McMartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case......Page 687
August 21, 1983: Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home......Page 691
October 14, 1983: British Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant......Page 694
January 25, 1984: Jesse Jackson Calls New York City “Hymietown\"......Page 696
May 2, 1984: E. F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud......Page 699
July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign......Page 701
December 22, 1984: Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths......Page 704
1985-1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher’s Government......Page 708
May 7, 1985: Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud......Page 711
July 10, 1985: French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior......Page 714
July 19, 1985: Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to Promoting Prostitution......Page 717
August 19, 1985: West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany......Page 720
September 17, 1985: Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna......Page 723
October 23, 1985: Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud......Page 725
February 28, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use......Page 729
March 3, 1986: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s Nazi Past Is Revealed......Page 732
April 22, 1986: Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud......Page 736
November 13, 1986-May 4, 1989: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan’s Administration......Page 739
January 12 and May 11, 1987: Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption......Page 744
January 22, 1987: Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference......Page 747
February 25, 1987: NCAA Imposes “Death Penalty” on Southern Methodist University Football......Page 750
March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network......Page 753
April 9, 1987: Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs......Page 756
July 25, 1987: Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star......Page 759
September 23, 1987: Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign......Page 761
November 28, 1987: Black Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by   Police Officers......Page 765
December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar’s Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed......Page 768
January 15, 1988: ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges......Page 771
February 21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery......Page 774
June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government......Page 777
July 18, 1988: Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor......Page 780
September 19, 1988: Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud......Page 783
March 23, 1989: Scientists’ “Cold Fusion” Claims Cannot Be Verified......Page 786
March 29, 1989: Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud......Page 789
May 31, 1989: Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal......Page 793
August 10, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha......Page 796
August 24, 1989: Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for Betting on Games......Page 798
December 3, 1989: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed......Page 802
December 15-25, 1989: Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution......Page 805
December 18, 1989: Prince Charles’s Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped......Page 808
January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use......Page 811
March, 1990: Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents......Page 813
August 27, 1990: Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud......Page 816
November 19, 1990: Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award......Page 819
March 30, 1991: William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape......Page 822
April 5, 1991: George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading......Page 825
July 26, 1991: Comedian Pee-wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency......Page 828
October 11-13, 1991:Justice Clarence Thomas’s Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal......Page 831
January 13, 1992: Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow’s Adopted Daughter......Page 836
April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion......Page 839
May 6, 1992: Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey’s Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation......Page 842
May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco......Page 844
June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal......Page 847
August 23, 1992: Princess Diana’s Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public......Page 852
September 24, 1992: British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns over Romantic Affair......Page 855
June 23, 1993: Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband’s Penis......Page 858
January 5, 1994: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock......Page 861
April 28, 1994: U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating......Page 863
June 1, 1994: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal......Page 866
June 12, 1994: Double Murder Leads to Sensational O. J. Simpson Trial......Page 869
June 24, 1994: Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O. J. Simpson Photo......Page 873
June 30, 1994:Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on Rival......Page 875
July 1, 1994: Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup......Page 878
August 5, 1994: Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation......Page 881
August 21, 1994: Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of NAACP Chief Benjamin Chavis......Page 884
February 28, 1995: FormerMexican PresidentCarlos Salinas’s BrotherIs Arrested for Murder......Page 887
June 27, 1995: Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct......Page 890
November 18, 1995: Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal......Page 893
February 4, 1996: Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption......Page 896
Spring, 1996:Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article......Page 900
August 16, 1996: Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case......Page 903
November 3, 1996: Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey......Page 906
January, 1997: Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall......Page 909
February 26, 1997: Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is Arrested for Statutory Rape......Page 912
March 12, 1997: Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud......Page 915
May 20, 1997: Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard......Page 918
June 25, 1997: Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims......Page 921
August 31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash......Page 924
September 22, 1997;Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual Assault......Page 928
November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood......Page 931
December 11, 1997: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents......Page 935
January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern......Page 937
Volume 3: 1998–2008......Page 944
Contents, Volume 3  ......Page 946
Keyword List of Contents......Page 950
April, 1998:  Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism......Page 968
April 7, 1998:Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct......Page 970
May, 1998: Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles’s Rampart Division......Page 973
May 11, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud......Page 976
December 23, 1998: Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal......Page 978
March 4, 1999: Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans......Page 981
May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock......Page 984
May 7, 1999-March 2, 2001: Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien......Page 987
January 28, 2000: John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team......Page 990
May 2, 2000: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Extramarital Affair Is Revealed......Page 993
May 9, 2000: Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges......Page 996
September, 2000: American Scientists Are Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon......Page 999
September 19, 2000: Ex-gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a Gay Bar......Page 1002
September 26, 2000: Gymnast Andreea Raducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs......Page 1005
November 5, 2000: Japanese Amateur Archaeologist’s “Discoveries” Are Proven Fakes......Page 1008
December, 2000: Sexual Abuse of Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair......Page 1011
2001: Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering......Page 1014
January 30, 2001: Liverpool Children’s Hospital Collects Body Parts Without Authorization......Page 1016
February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians......Page 1020
April 30, 2001: Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears......Page 1022
June 18, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying......Page 1025
June 30, 2001: Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape......Page 1028
August 27, 2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found to Be Overage......Page 1031
December 2, 2001: Enron Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud......Page 1034
December 14, 2001: Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying His Résumé......Page 1037
January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism......Page 1040
January 6, 2002: Boston Globe Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests......Page 1043
January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism......Page 1048
February 11, 2002: French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics......Page 1051
February 17, 2002: Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory......Page 1053
March 27, 2002: Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns over Fraud Allegations......Page 1057
June 25, 2002: Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy......Page 1060
July, 2002: Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds in New Zealand......Page 1063
August, 2002: Immunologist Resigns After Being Accused of Falsifying Research......Page 1066
September 25, 2002: Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Faked His Research......Page 1069
September 28, 2002: British Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John Major......Page 1072
October 25, 2002: Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations......Page 1074
December 5, 2002: Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Presidential Campaign......Page 1077
January 2, 2003: E-mail Message Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults......Page 1080
March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to Have Spied on U.N. Officials......Page 1084
April 29, 2003: New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposedas a Fraud......Page 1087
May 3, 2003: University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in Sex Scandal......Page 1091
July 1, 2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape......Page 1097
July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame......Page 1099
September 3, 2003: Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices......Page 1102
October 2, 2003: Newspaper Claims That Arnold Schwarzenegger Groped Women......Page 1105
Early November, 2003: Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web......Page 1108
December 17, 2003: Senator Strom Thurmond’s Biracial Daughter Is Revealed......Page 1111
December 18, 2003: Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation......Page 1114
March 4, 2004: Former United Way Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement......Page 1117
March 5, 2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading Scandal......Page 1120
April 28, 2004: CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib......Page 1123
June 2, 2004: U.N. Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges......Page 1128
August 19, 2004: Blog “Outs” Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock......Page 1130
September 8, 2004: 60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush’s Evasion of Wartime Duty......Page 1133
October 13, 2004: Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O’Reilly......Page 1136
October 14, 2004: Insurance Brokerage Marsh & McLennan Is Charged with Fraud......Page 1139
January 15, 2005: Iqbal Riza Resigns from the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal......Page 1142
January 27, 2005: German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for Money......Page 1144
March 17, 2005: Former Baseball Star Mark McGwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use......Page 1147
June 22, 2005: U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at Its Academy......Page 1151
July 1, 2005: Federal Agents Raid Congressman Randall Cunningham’s Home......Page 1153
Beginning August 29, 2005: Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts......Page 1157
September 12, 2005: Westar Energy Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company......Page 1161
September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper’s Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests......Page 1164
November 17, 2005: Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone over Slave Labor......Page 1167
December 6, 2005: Spokane, Washington, Mayor Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal......Page 1170
January 21, 2006: British Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy......Page 1173
March 14, 2006: Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape......Page 1175
April 26, 2006: Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary......Page 1178
May 4, 2006: Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer......Page 1181
May 12, 2006: Scientist Is Indicted for Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells......Page 1183
Summer, 2006-March 16, 2007: Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food That Killed Thousands of American Pets......Page 1186
July 14, 2006: New York Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University......Page 1190
July 26, 2006: Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal......Page 1192
July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-Semitic Remarks......Page 1195
August 12, 2006: Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties......Page 1198
September 17, 2006: New Zealand Prime Minister’s Husband Is “Outed” as Gay......Page 1201
September 18, 2006: Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard Spied on Its Own Board......Page 1203
September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page......Page 1207
October 22, 2006: Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns......Page 1210
November 2, 2006: Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations......Page 1212
November 2, 2006: Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard......Page 1215
November 20, 2006: News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O. J. Simpson’s Book......Page 1218
November 23, 2006: Former Russian Security Service Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning......Page 1221
Early 2007: Subprime Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse......Page 1223
February 18, 2007: Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital......Page 1227
April 11, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His Radio Show over Sexist and Racist Remarks......Page 1231
May 28, 2007: Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself......Page 1234
June 4, 2007: Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption......Page 1236
July 9, 2007: Senator David Vitter’s Name Is Found in D.C. Madam’s Address Book......Page 1239
July 11, 2007: Florida Politician Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer......Page 1242
July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification......Page 1244
August 20, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dogfighting Ring......Page 1247
September 13, 2007: New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams......Page 1250
October 5, 2007: Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use......Page 1253
March 12, 2008: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal......Page 1256
June 13, 2008: Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges......Page 1259
July 29, 2008: NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games......Page 1261
September 7, 2008: Financial Institutions and Markets Begin to Collapse......Page 1264
Bibliography......Page 1272
Chronological List of Entries......Page 1278
Geographical Index......Page 1289
Category Index......Page 1305
Personages Index......Page 1352
Subject Index......Page 1366