The Democrat was later caught up in a major corruption scandal, which made Pope even angrier.
Moreover, his last government, like so many others in Thai history, ended in a corruption scandal.
The oilman at the center of the corruption scandal, Bill Allen, had agreed to testify against Stevens.
It also points to police action against the Tehelka.com website, which revealed a major corruption scandal in India.
Mr DeLay, who had resigned from Congress to fight a corruption scandal, then formally withdrew from the race.
The chief of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has denied allegations of involvement in a massive corruption scandal.
That is the lesson of the latest corruption scandal to hit international sport.
The opposition Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois have made the corruption scandal their main issue in attempting to topple the government.
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Most important of all, she is from Quebec, where support for the ruling Liberals has slumped because of a corruption scandal.
Valencia has a corruption scandal in which the PP premier, Francisco Camps, is accused of (but denies) receiving expensive suits from subcontractors.
Subsequently, a surge in violent crime, the slow pace of reconstruction, and the burgeoning corruption scandal at city hall undermined his popularity.
John W. Jenrette Jr. of South Carolina was enmeshed in the Abscam corruption scandal, resigned in 1980 and subsequently went to prison.
Its telecom joint venture unraveled in the wake of a telecom corruption scandal which led to the mass cancellation of 2G licences.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has dismissed a number of senior officials accused of involvement in the latest corruption scandal to hit the government.
Indian Commonwealth Games officials have said all the venues will be ready by 25 August even though the event has been over-shadowed by a corruption scandal.
Roh will also be questioned over a separate corruption scandal involving his former aide Jung Sang-moon who was arrested last week, according to Yonhap.
The son-in-law of Spain's King Juan Carlos I has agreed to step down from official duties amid a rare corruption scandal for the royal family.
The licences were issued by former telecoms minister A Raja, who is accused of mis-selling bandwidth in what has been called India's biggest corruption scandal.
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In Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is under increased scrutiny and facing calls for his resignation due to connections to a corruption scandal.
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India's top investigation agency has removed a key member of its prosecution team from his post for alleged links with a suspect in a corruption scandal.
Next door in Uganda, international donors lined up to announce they were suspending aid programmes following a corruption scandal in the office of the prime minister.
Mr Bainimarama then called for the prime minister and his cabinet to resign over a corruption scandal and later openly threatened to remove the government by military force.
Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's Princess Cristina faces preliminary charges in a financial corruption scandal involving her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, the office of investigating magistrate Jose Castro announced Wednesday.
When, last November, a conservative prime minister, Mesut Yilmaz, bowed out in the aftermath of a corruption scandal, Mr Ecevit was not at first up for the job.
But everybody agrees that he has been masterly in the way he has manoeuvred the ship of Italian politics out of the great corruption scandal of the early 1990s.
Americans don't like corruption and scandal, and they particularly don't like corruption and scandal for people who have held themselves out to be the people who want to change Washington.
Laying out an agenda for changing ethics laws following another Albany corruption scandal, Republican mayoral contender Joseph Lhota on Sunday took aim at the Democratic front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
His former chief of staff, Paul Mifsud, received a six-month jail sentence for evidence tampering and forgery, and Voinovich's brother has been criticized for his role in a local corruption scandal.
After the resignation of key officials amid a corruption scandal, Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, dismissed the government of Yulia Timoshenko and asked Yuri Yekhanurov, a regional governor, to become prime minster.
Only one notable unpleasantness marked Samoa's politics in Malietoa's time, the murder of a minister of public works in 1999, allegedly to prevent him from revealing the details of a corruption scandal.
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