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United States Secretary of War William Belknap (R) resigned just before he was impeached by the United States House of Representatives for bribery. (1876) Schuyler Colfax (R-IN) Vice President under Republican U. S. Grant invested money in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal and failed to mention $10,000 they invested in his next campaign. He was ...
A corporate collapse typically involves the insolvency or bankruptcy of a major business enterprise. A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved false or inappropriate accounting of some sort (see list at ...
Political corruption. Corruption in the United States is the act of government officials abusing their political powers for private gain, typically through bribery or other methods, in the United States government. Corruption in the United States has been a perennial political issue, peaking in the Jacksonian era and the Gilded Age before ...
Federal official gratuity, federal official conflict-of interest, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Abscam. [47] Democrat. Michael Myers. House of Representatives. Pennsylvania. 1980. Federal official bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Travel Act.
On December 7, 2006, the George W. Bush administration 's Department of Justice ordered the midterm dismissal of seven United States attorneys. [1] Congressional investigations focused on whether the Department of Justice and the White House were using the U.S. attorney positions for political advantage. The allegations were that some of the ...
W. Killing of Walter Wallace. Washington Redskins name controversy. When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Killing of Ryan Whitaker. Execution of Nathaniel Woods. Categories: Controversies in the United States by year. 2020s controversies in the United States.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault, and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid ...
Many sex scandals in American history have involved incumbent United States federal elected politicians, as well as persons appointed with the consent of the United States Senate. [1] [2] [3] Sometimes, the officials have denied the accusations, have apologized, or have lost their office in consequence of the scandal (e.g. by resigning, being ...