A South Korean court sentenced a former business partner of President Lee Myung-bak to 10 years in prison for stock manipulation, embezzlement and forgery Thursday, a court official said.
Yes, he paid five prostitutes for sex. No, the orgy did not involve Nazi role-playing.
China sentenced the former Communist Party chief of the country's financial capital to 18 years in prison Friday, but spared him the usual punishment for serious economic crimes — death.
Finland's foreign minister was ousted Tuesday by his conservative party over a text message scandal involving an erotic dancer.
Chinese authorities said Monday they are investigating complaints that millions of cell phone users were spammed with unwanted text messages from advertisers.
Japan fired its navy chief Friday and slapped dozens of defense officials with penalties over a series of scandals, while a report found the military negligent in a deadly crash between a destroyer and a fishing boat.
A top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was caught at a border crossing with 3,000 contraband cell phones in his car, bringing embarrassment for an administration already struggling with sagging popularity over stalled peace talks with Israel.
A special prosecutor cleared South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak of financial fraud allegations Thursday, allowing him to take office next week with his mandate untarnished.
The head of an influential group of Roman Catholic bishops called Tuesday for a new grass-roots revolt in the Philippines to fight endemic corruption.
A former senior accountant at Oral Roberts University alleges that more than $1 billion annually was inappropriately funneled through the school.
A small-town mayor accused of secretly keeping her neighbors' dog after telling them the pet died has resigned, and a judge is set to decide custody of the Shih Tzu.
David Colby was one of corporate America's most admired executives before he was abruptly fired last spring for what was vaguely described at the time as misconduct of a "non-business nature." Now details about his personal life are spilling out, and it's clear he was more than just Wall Street's darling.
The makers of a racy Thai soap opera about airline crews apologized Tuesday for offending real-life flight attendants, who had complained that its scenes of sexual hijinx sullied their reputations.
A popular new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the high skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants who demanded Monday that the show be canceled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light.
The allegations could bring down the mayor of this South Texas town: a faked death, an attempt to hide the evidence from police, a cover-up story.
Prosecutors dropped criminal charges against the former head of the Canadian Red Cross on Friday, clearing him of responsibility in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands with HIV or hepatitis and left more than 3,000 dead.
Former longtime leader Mahathir Mohamad denied at a public inquiry Thursday that outsiders manipulated top judicial appointments during his reign — in a scandal that has cast doubts about the independence of Malaysia's judiciary.
Leaders of Oral Roberts University voted unanimously Monday to accept a $62 million donation from an Oklahoma City businessman that will help alleviate debt at the scandal-plagued Tulsa school.
Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school.
South Korea's Constitutional Court rejected a petition Thursday seeking to halt a probe of President-elect Lee Myung-bak over financial fraud allegations, subjecting the incoming leader to an embarrassing criminal inquiry before he takes office next month.
Malaysian police have arrested a beauty parlor owner and a farmer suspected of distributing a sex video showing a former minister committing adultery, news reports said Saturday.
Authorities raided the offices of an influential Democratic donor on Friday, prompting accusations by the donor's attorneys that the raid was politically motivated.
Malaysia's health minister resigned Wednesday after acknowledging that he and a female friend were the couple in a secretly filmed sex video, saying "some Malaysians have a holier-than-thou attitude."
Every unit in the U.N.'s 7,800-strong Haitian peacekeeping force has been warned against misconduct after a sex-abuse scandal erupted last month, the top U.N. official in Haiti said Wednesday.
South Korea's president approved an independent investigation of his successor, Lee Myung-bak, over financial fraud allegations that have cast a cloud over the former Seoul mayor's landslide election win.
A Swedish police officer involved in the investigation of file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been given a job with one of the plaintiffs in the case, film company Warner Brothers.
tara reid drunk as a skunk... again
Apparently, Barclay thought his GOP and Rove connections allowed this type of Surveillance. David Vitter, relax…
The princes daughter was able to enjoy a six-week honeymoon in luxury resorts in Singapore, Malaysia, Bali, Australia and Hawaii, staying in five-star hotels costing up to £4,000 a night
The Resignation of Mark Penn as Clinton's Strategist Reveals a Long Overdue Rejection of a US-Colombia "Free Trade" Agreement
Return with me to Abu Ghraib. You remember it. You may not want to, but you do.
MLB has steroids and hgh. The NBA has point-shaving refs. The NHL has a lousy TV deal. The NFL is looking at a major labor crunch in the next few years. But all of these commissioners are thanking their lucky stars that they aren't this guy!
A South Korean college is suing top US university Yale for $50m (£25m) over an administrative error that snowballed into a national scandal.
The SDLP today reiterated its call for the closure of Sellafield after its owners admitted radioactive liquid waste had leaked.
Taiwan yesterday disputed Pentagon claims that it had notified the US of an accidental shipment of nuclear missile components more than a year after the parts had arrival.
Cleanup of some of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the country is behind schedule because of inadequate funding, experts say. While the Energy Department has been able to reduce cost overruns and delays through robust project management, overall progress has been st …
Washingtonians once counted on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation being cleaned up in their lifetimes. Increasingly, it's looking like not even their great-grandchildren will live to see the day.
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Already this year we've had Spitzer. Last year we had Senator Craig. I'm sure anyone could find examples of hypocrisy in government (or any major organization).
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To a student asking if "the Monica Lewinsky scandal had damaged her mother's reputation," Chelsea answered, "Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any o …
In the 1970s, he was on the payroll of Richard Nixon's now-infamous Committee to Reelect the President. In the 1980s, he helped George Bush Sr. trounce Michael Dukakis by floating a racially charged ad about the Democratic governor's role in furloughing a black inmate.
So, Eliot Spitzer was caught with a high priced prostitute, but what about Japanese governors who obviously receive special service daily? Why so many sexual services in Japan can be performed when prostitution is officially outlawed.
The outrage over former New York governor Eliot Spitzer hiring an A-list hooker makes me feel like throwing a gigantic, crippling pile of superheavy biology and economics books at everyone in the United States and possibly the world.
I would like to argue that it was his recent (March 18, 2008) speech in Philadelphia which elevated Obama and prepared him for a national candidacy and provided a spring-board to Presidency.
March 19, 2008 -- IN one week: The former Gov. Spitzer situation. The current Gov. and Mrs. Paterson and their extramarital mattresses. The ongoing soap opera of McGreevey and McGreevey and To Whom It May Concern.
When the Russian czarina toured war-ravaged Crimea in 1787, she viewed hundreds of hollow buildings and false fronts, populated by jovial village actors. Her minister, Grigori Potemkin, had engineered the grand theatrical production to boost his own political career.
The rumors about Gov. David Paterson's marital troubles have been around for years. He was in the state Legislature where everyone interacts, everyone talks, and word spreads.
Gov. David A. Paterson and his wife, Michelle, have both had extramarital affairs in the past, the couple said in an interview with The Daily News after he was sworn in on Monday. Charles O'Byrne, secretary to the governor and Mr.
$80,000 prostitution tabs and thick ankle jokes. Silda and Ashley. Hillary and Monica. Our elected misogynists. I'm newly bitter. I need to talk to some old school Feminists to understand what social cues I've been ignoring.