Arroyo has lately run into her own difficulties, with charges that she, too, has been connected to the gambling business.
Meanwhile, Berlusconi faced a serious personal challenge with charges of sex with an underage nightclub dancer and abuse of power.
Among the favourites is a former mayor of Caracas, Claudio Fermin, who also has been tarred with charges of corruption.
Both faced serious charges and both ended up with charges that stuck.
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However, a joint investigation by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local authorities found "insufficient evidence to proceed with charges, " according RCMP spokesman Cpl.
Lenders had held back while dealing with charges of mishandling the paperwork, but settled those charges with state and federal officials in February.
Mr. Singh had spent more than two decades in jail in Pakistan in connection with charges of spying and bombings that killed 14 people in 1990.
BofA beat estimates while Citi fell short of expectations Thursday morning, but the reports from both banks were rife with charges, mortgage settlements and legal costs.
When the pattern was repeated the next year with charges of market timing and late trading in the mutual-fund industry, rival regulators again attacked Mr. Spitzer's office.
With this sentiment, prosecutors felt confident in moving forward with charges against some business leaders even when the evidence did not support that there was criminal activity.
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But the CPS cannot proceed with charges until the police investigation is complete, and there is uncertainty over which charges may be applicable given there may be no "victim" in law.
He is not tainted with charges of political murder.
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He may have been scared of getting hit with charges of spying on people around the world (Canada, the Netherlands, and France have all found that Google violated data protection laws with Wi-Spy).
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's settlement with a major credit bureau that hit consumers with charges after promising a free credit report is a victory for all those who don't read the small print.
The judge said setting this precedent would clog the court system with charges for every player who threw an elbow under a basket or anyone who ever threw a punch on an ice rink.
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He took the same position in another, more recent suit, the one he filed in federal court a few years later to prevent the United States Anti-Doping Agency from moving forward with charges against him.
Despite JSTOR declining to pursue the case, and later in 2001 making its public-domain resources freely available, the federal suit continued, with charges of computer fraud and wire fraud carrying a potential sentence of 35 years.
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While most of Brown's life was glitz and glitter he was the manic preacher in 1980's The Blues Brothers he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne.
Texas Auto Center in Austin Texas demonstrated the headaches that ensue when in February they left more than 80 customers who financed cars unable to get to school or work, and stuck with charges for towing and unnecessary repair work.
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If you are looking for a case where the crimes associated with charges of honest services were clear, look no further than the prosecution of former U.S. representative William Jefferson who is currently serving 13 years for various charges, including honest services.
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At present Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ) and other producers of dynamic random access memory chips for computers--one of the most competitive industries on the planet--are confronted with charges from the Justice Department that imply all three pricing offenses at once.
Secondly, because it seems to be the case these days that -- with charges like this, that hypocrisy knows no bounds, Governor Romney joined with 28 other Republican governors in support of policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever.
He was booted from power in the late 1990s for launching a failed challenge to the leadership of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and has since weathered numerous attempts to discredit him with charges of corruption and sexual misconduct by stressing how these were acts of desperation on the part of the government to discredit him precisely because of the existential threat he posed.
As for unpopular choices, his flirtation with congestion charges has brought a collision with party strategists, who fear a motorists' backlash.
The widest variation in charges come with debit card charges, according to Andrew Hagger, of consumer website Moneynet.
The Feds also dropped their criminal investigation against Armstrong in February with no charges filed.
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There is only so much you can do with parking charges and library fines.
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But the chief justice was equally right to press ahead with corruption charges against Mr Sharif.
They spent five decades delaying cancer warnings to people with similar charges about lack of evidence, etc.
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Faneuil was himself accused by the government of lying about the incident and threatened with felony charges.
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