In the wake of scandal in the governor's office, Illinois voters approved a constitutional amendment (HJRCA 31) that will allow for a recall of a governor and a special election to choose a replacement -- a process that exists in 18 other states.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked Sir Thomas to look for mistakes made in expenses claims approved by the Commons Fees Office over five years, when the expenses scandal broke in May.
In it, campaign officials for the U.S. president fake a war to divert attention from a sex scandal in the Oval Office.
Sweeney believes that President Clinton should resign from office over the Monica Lewinsky 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.
The low-budget comedy stars Craig Robinson from "The Office" and Kerry Washington from "Scandal" and was produced but not directed by Mr. Perry, who is best known for the hit "Madea" series.
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When Boeing protested, producing 110 complaints about the bidding process that (partly because of the earlier scandal) had been unusually fair and transparent, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a congressional watchdog, upheld seven of them.
The FBI's New York office also has been investigating whether any Americans were involved in the scandal.
Jack Cunningham, the former Cabinet Office minister and Labour MP for Copeland, in which the Sellafield plant is located, says the scandal has thrown the future of Britain's nuclear industry into doubt.
He has been tasked to probe the firings in the White House travel office, administration access to hundreds of FBI files on Republicans and, finally, the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Second, the fact that the AIPAC scandal unfolded during the Bush administration's tenure shows that even when administrations friendly to Israel are in office, a persistent, powerful group of bureaucrats in the federal government remains ready and able to persecute pro-Israel activists and policymakers.
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.
There are many unanswered questions about how the scandal came to pass, including why the Cincinnati office plowed ahead with using the screening words, whether IRS officials misled Congress and whether senior officials in Washington played a greater role than they have so far acknowledged.
Shortly before he left office in late 2006, Rumsfeld said the day the Abu Ghraib scandal broke was the worst in his tenure as defense secretary.
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WHEN, last August, Glen Clark became the third British Columbian premier in succession to be driven from office by scandal, nobody in Canada's far-western province was especially surprised.
Putting scandal aside, the pope's last day in office has been carefully mapped out by Vatican aides who've had to make up the rules over the past two weeks.
The pensions industry worries that the new proposals may undermine the successes of existing private pensions, already burdened by increases in taxation since Labour took office as well as by the legacy of the mis-selling scandal.
That is the trouble with the giant fundraising scandal that has preoccupied Washington since Mr Clinton returned to office.
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His final week in office has been clouded by scandal, with allegations swirling in the Italian media that gay clergy may have made themselves vulnerable to blackmail by male prostitutes.
Voters are saying they prefer Democrats in office to Republicans, there's a lot of scandal around the Senate and the House and the White House, which are all in Republican control.
Many are wondering whether a new pontiff will choose to lead the church in a different direction -- and can lift it out of the mire of scandal that has bogged down this pope's time in office.
As Benedict closes the door behind him, many are wondering whether a new pontiff will choose to lead the church in a different direction -- and can lift it out of the mire of scandal that has bogged down this pope's time in office.
But his office was slow to respond to allegations against the officer at the heart of the scandal, who later confessed to intimidation and murder.
The other former mayor running is Xavier Suarez, who defeated Carollo in 1997 but was forced from office four months later in a voting scandal in which absentee ballots in the election were declared invalid.
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In the separate scandal known as Travelgate -- the 1993 purge of White House travel office employees -- a newly released memo seems to show Hillary Clinton more deeply involved than she had said earlier.
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The Oklahoma Tax Commission is a strong candidate for the worst tax agency in the U.S. It currently sits at the center of a huge scandal, with numerous employees accused criminally of wrongdoing and fraud in office.
He said his best day may be a week from Monday when he leaves office and his worst day, he said, was when word came about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
He faces charges of corruption in a scandal concerning the sale of French warships to Taiwan in the early 1990s, when he was in office.
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