Great events from history: Modern scandals, 1904-2008

v. 1. 1904-1972

v. 2. 1972-1998

v. 3. 1998-2008.

v. 1. 1904-1972

1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds

January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery

December, 1904: Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud

1906-1909: Emperor William Ii's Homosexual "Circle" Scandalizes Germany

March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children

June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White

July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason

December 8, 1906: Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover

1907: Elinor Glyn's Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers

June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion

November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II

1909-1916: Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir

1910: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin

March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

January, 1913: British Prime Minister's Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading

January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office

February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public

May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution

April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match

May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks

July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances

1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes are Revealed as Investment Frauds

September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in "Black Sox" Scandal

July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation

February 1, 1922: Director Taylor's Murder Ruins Mabel Normand's Acting Career

March 26, 1922: Hindemith's Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun's Sexual Desires

April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter

June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors

January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid's Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry

March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud

May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty's Aide Commits Suicide

October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases

January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand's Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines

May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act

October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government

November 19, 1924: Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies after Weekend on Hearst's Yacht

July, 1925: Nosferatu is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright

May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She was Kidnapped

December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games

1927: Mae West's Play about Gays is Banned on Broadway

1927: President Warren G. Harding's Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir

Early 1928: Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria Swanson

1928-1929: Actor is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian

March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit

June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience

November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry

1930: Liberia is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery

May, 1930: Postmaster's Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal

December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L'Âge d'or Provokes French Rioting

March 30, 1931: "Scottsboro Boys" are Railroaded through Rape Trials

1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation

July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington

September 4, 1932: Film Star Jean Harlow's Husband Is an Apparent Suicide

January 20, 1933: Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase

March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine

January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936 Stavisky's Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government

May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel

July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee

December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd's Death cannot be Explained

May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns after Budget Information Leak

Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor's Diary becomes a Public Sensation

December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée

March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption

September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths

October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany

May 22, 1939: Kansas City's Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion

February 6, 1942: Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape.

February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans

April 22, 1942: French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II

December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration

January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized

February 23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-Five Girls

June 4, 1943: Actor Charles Chaplin Is Sued for Paternity

June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax

May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration

May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason

August 14, 1945: French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration

December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized

November 23, 1946: Tennis Star Bill Tilden Is Arrested for Lewd Behavior with a Minor

Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties

July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison

August 4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman's Corruption

August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession

May 27, 1949: Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan after Adulterous Affair

August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General's Damaging Report

January 21, 1950: Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury

February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock

February 9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph Mccarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt

May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime

January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money

July 16, 1951: Belgium's Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates

November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns after Accepting Bribes

September 19, 1952: Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United States

September 23, 1952: Richard Nixon Denies Taking Illegal Campaign Contributions

December 1, 1952: George Jorgensen Becomes Christine Jorgensen

November 21, 1953: Piltdown Man Is Revealed to Be a Hoax

May, 1955: Scandal Magazine Reveals Actor Rory Calhoun's Criminal Past

Late 1955: British Atrocities in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion are Revealed

1956-1962: Prescription Thalidomide Causes Widespread Birth Disorders

March 9, 1956: British Conductor-Composer Is Arrested for Possessing Pornography

June, 1956: George F. Kennan Proves Russian Sisson Documents are Fakes

June 25, 1956: President Truman's Appointments Secretary Is Convicted of Tax Conspiracy

December 12, 1957: Rock Star Jerry Lee Lewis Marries Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin

April 4, 1958: Actor Lana Turner's Daughter Kills Turner's Gangster Lover

September 22, 1958: President Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Resigns for Influence Selling

May, 1959: Teamsters Leader Dave Beck Is Convicted of Tax Fraud

November 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren Admits to Being Fed Answers on Television Quiz Show

February 7, 1960: President Kennedy's Romantic Affair Links Him to Organized Crime

February 8, 1960: U.S. Congress Investigates Payola in Pop Music Industry

March 14, 1960: Fcc Chairman John C. Doerfer Resigns for Accepting Gifts from Networks

July, 1961: Psychologist Stanley Milgram Begins Obedience-to-Authority Experiments

March 29, 1962: Billie Sol Estes Is Arrested for Corporate Fraud

May 19, 1962: Marilyn Monroe Sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President"

September 12, 1962: British Civil Servant Is Arrested for Spying

October 26, 1962: West German Police Raid Der Spiegel Magazine Offices

February 23, 1963: Play Accuses Pope Pius XII of Complicity in the Holocaust

March 2-September 25, 1963: John Profumo Affair Rocks British Government

July 2, 1963: Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad Is Sued for Paternity

August 14, 1963: Madame Nhu Derides Self-Immolation of Vietnamese Buddhists

October 7, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Aide Resigns over Crime Connections

March 13, 1964: Kitty Genovese Dies as Her Cries for Help are Ignored

October 7, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson's Aide Is Arrested in Gay-Sex Sting

October 29, 1965: Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka Disappears in Paris

March 4, 1966: Munsinger Sex and Spy Scandal Rocks Canada

March 1, 1967: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Is Excluded from Congress

June 23, 1967: Senator Thomas J. Dodd Is Censured for Misappropriating Funds

September 5, 1967: Socialite Nancy Wakeman Shoots Her Politician-Husband

November 28, 1967: Investor Louis Wolfson Is Convicted of Selling Stock Illegally

May 9, 1969: Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas Is Accused of Bribery

July 18, 1969: Senator Edward Kennedy's Driving Accident Kills Mary Jo Kopechne

Fall, 1969-Winter, 1971: Japanese Baseball Players are Implicated in Game Fixing

November 13, 1969: American Massacre of Vietnamese Civilians at My Lai Is Revealed

December 30, 1969: United Mine Workers Leader Joseph Yablonski Is Murdered

1970: Study of Anonymous Gay Sex Leads to Ethics Scandal

May 4, 1970: National Guardsmen Kill Protesting Kent State Students

May 28, 1970: Irish Politicians are Tried for Conspiring to Import Weapons

June 13, 1971: New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers

August 20, 1971: Abusive Role-Playing Ends Stanford Prison Experiment

January 28, 1972: Clifford Irving Admits Faking Howard Hughes Memoirs

June 17, 1972-August 9, 1974: Watergate Break-in Leads to President Nixon's Resignation

June 22, 1972: Police Arrest Architect John Poulson for Bribery and Fraud

July 8-22, 1972: Jane Fonda's Visit to North Vietnam Outrages Many Americans.

v. 2. 1972-1998

July 25, 1972: Newspaper Breaks Story of Abuses in Tuskegee Syphilis Study

July 31, 1972: Thomas F. Eagleton Withdraws from Vice Presidential Race

August 19, 1973: Cheating Scandal Shocks Soap Box Derby

October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew Resigns Vice Presidency in Disgrace

April 15, 1974: Kidnapped Heir Patty Hearst Helps Rob a Bank

May 14, 1974: Washington Post Reveals That the Nixons Received Jewelry Gifts

May 20, 1974: French Cardinal Daniélou Dies in a Prostitute's House

Summer, 1974: Dalkon Shield Contraceptive Is Removed from the Market

October 7, 1974: Congressman Wilbur D. Mills's Stripper Affair Leads to His Downfall

October 25, 1974: Evangelist Billy James Hargis Resigns College Presidency During Gay-Sex Scandal

November 20, 1974: British Politician John Stonehouse Fakes His Suicide

February 3, 1975: Honduras's "Bananagate" Bribery Scandal Leads to Executive's Suicide

October 31, 1975: Buddhist Teacher Orders His Students to Remove Their Clothes

1976: Peace Corps Conceals Murder of Volunteer in Tonga

1976-1977: U.S. Congress Members Are Implicated in Koreagate Scandal

February 4, 1976: Lockheed Is Implicated in Bribing Foreign Officials

March 21, 1976: Actor Claudine Longet Kills Ski Champion Vladimir Sabich

April 4, 1976: West Point Cadets Are Caught Cheating on Exams

May 23, 1976: Washington Post Exposes Congressman Wayne L. Hays's Affair

September 1, 1976: Former Beatle George Harrison Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit

September, 1976: Jimmy Carter Admits Committing Adultery in His Heart

October 4, 1976: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz Resigns After Making Obscene Joke

November 9, 1976: German Generals Must Retire for Supporting a Neo-Nazi Pilot

January, 1977: Singer Anita Bryant Campaigns Against Lesbian and Gay Rights

February 25, 1977: Film Producer David Begelman Is Found to Have Forged Checks

September 21, 1977: Carter Cabinet Member Resigns Over Ethics Violations

September 23, 1977: Horse-Swapping Fraud Upsets Belmont Park Raceway

1978: Actor Joan Crawford's Daughter Publishes Damning Memoir, Mommie Dearest

1978: Roots Author Alex Haley Is Sued for Plagiarism

February 1, 1978: Roman Polanski Flees the United States to Avoid Rape Trial

June 27, 1978: Evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong Excommunicates His Own Son

July 23, 1978: Utah Millionaire Is Murdered by His Grandson

August 4, 1978: British Politician Jeremy Thorpe Is Charged with Attempted Murder

October 20, 1978: Firestone Recalls Millions of Defective Car Tires

January 26, 1979: Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Dies Mysteriously

April 18, 1979: Actor Lee Marvin Is Ordered to Pay Palimony to Former Lover

June 4, 1979: South African President B.J. Vorster Resigns in Muldergate Scandal

September 26, 1979: Love Canal Residents Sue Chemical Company

October 10, 1979: French President Giscard d'Estaing Is Accused of Taking a Bribe

October 11, 1979: Senate Denounces Herman E. Talmadge for Money Laundering

November 29, 1979, and January 31, 1983: Baseball Commissioner Suspends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for Casino Ties

1980: Biographer Claims Actor Errol Flynn was a Nazi Spy

February 2, 1980: Media Uncover FBI Sting Implicating Dozens of Lawmakers

March 10, 1980: Scarsdale Diet Doctor Is Killed by His Lover

April 27, 1980: Mobster's Arrest Reveals Point Shaving by Boston College Basketball Players

Late July, 1980: President's Brother, Billy Carter, Registers as a Paid Agent for Libya

July 28, 1980: Magazine Reveals Baseball Star Steve Garvey's Marital Problems

September 3, 1980: Congressman Bauman Is Arrested for Liaison with Teenage Boy

October 9, 1980: Bendix Executive Resigns Amid Rumors of an Affair

December 7, 1980: Rita Jenrette's "Diary of a Mad Congresswife" Scandalizes Washington

April 15, 1981: Janet Cooke Admits Fabricating Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Feature

April 28, 1981: Tennis Star Billie Jean King Is Sued for Palimony

May 23, 1981: Italian Justice Minister Resigns Because of Crime Connection

May 29, 1981: Court Finds That Ford Ignored Pinto's Safety Problems

September 10, 1981: Chicago Sun-Times Reports That Cardinal Cody Diverted Church Funds

May 11, 1982: Philippine President Marcos Forces the Entire Supreme Court to Resign

July 20, 1982: Conservative Politician John G. Schmitz Is Found to Have Children Out of Wedlock

August 6, 1982: Banco Ambrosiano Collapses Amid Criminal Accusations

October 19, 1982: Car Manufacturer John De Lorean Is Arrested in a Drug Sting

December, 1982: Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards Deny Being Gay

December 16, 1982: Congress Cites Environmental Protection Agency Chief for Contempt

April 25, 1983: German Magazine Publishes Faked Hitler Diaries

July 20, 1983: Congress Members Censured in House-Page Sex Scandal

August 12, 1983-July 27, 1990: Mcmartin Preschool Is Embroiled in Child-Abuse Case

August 21, 1983: Filipino Opposition Leader Aquino Is Assassinated on Return Home

October 14, 1983: British Cabinet Secretary Parkinson Resigns After His Secretary Becomes Pregnant

January 25, 1984: Jesse Jackson Calls New York City "Hymietown"

May 2, 1984: E.F. Hutton Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud

July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams Is the First Miss America to Resign

December 22, 1984: Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz Shoots Four Black Youths

1985-1986: Westland Affair Shakes Prime Minister Thatcher's Government

May 7, 1985: Banker Jake Butcher Pleads Guilty to Fraud

July 10, 1985: French Secret Service Sinks the Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior

July 19, 1985: Mayflower Madam Pleads Guilty to Promoting Prostitution

August 19, 1985: West German Counterintelligence Chief Defects to East Germany

September 17, 1985: Media Allege Canadian Officials Allowed Sale of Rancid Tuna

October 23, 1985: Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Is Indicted for Immigration Fraud

February 28, 1986: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth Suspends Players for Cocaine Use.

March 3, 1986: Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's Nazi Past Is Revealed

April 22, 1986: Faith Healer Peter Popoff Is Exposed as a Fraud

November 13, 1986-May 4, 1989: Iran-Contra Weapons Scandal Taints Reagan's Administration

January 12 and May 11, 1987: Media Reports Spark Investigation of Australian Police Corruption

January 22, 1987: Pennsylvania Politician Kills Himself at Televised Press Conference

February 25, 1987: NCAA Imposes "Death Penalty" on Southern Methodist University Football

March 19, 1987: Jim Bakker Resigns as Head of PTL Television Network

April 9, 1987: Bess Myerson Resigns as New York Commissioner of Cultural Affairs

July 25, 1987: Novelist-Politician Jeffrey Archer Wins Libel Trial Against the Daily Star

September 23, 1987: Plagiarism Charges End Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign

November 28, 1987: Black Teenager Claims to Have Been Gang-Raped by Police Officers

December 1, 1987: Yale Scholar's Wartime Anti-Semitic Writings Are Revealed

January 15, 1988: ZZZZ Best Founder Is Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

February 21, 1988: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery

June, 1988-June, 1989: Insider-Trading Scandal Rocks Japanese Government

July 18, 1988: Actor Rob Lowe Videotapes His Sexual Encounter with a Minor

September 19, 1988: Stephen Breuning Pleads Guilty to Medical Research Fraud

March 23, 1989: Scientists' "Cold Fusion" Claims Cannot be Verified

March 29, 1989: Financier Michael Milken Is Indicted for Racketeering and Fraud

May 31, 1989: Speaker of the House Jim Wright Resigns in Ethics Scandal

August 10, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Sosuke Resigns After Affair with a Geisha

August 24, 1989: Pete Rose Is Banned from Baseball for Betting on Games

December 3, 1989: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, Doctoral-Thesis Plagiarism Is Revealed

December 15-25, 1989: Harassment of a Christian Minister Sparks the Romanian Revolution

December 18, 1989: Prince Charles's Intimate Phone Conversation with Camilla Parker Bowles Is Taped

January 18, 1990: Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry Is Arrested for Drug Use

March, 1990: Menendez Brothers Are Arrested for Murdering Their Parents

August 27, 1990: Guinness Four Are Found Guilty of Share-Trading Fraud

November 19, 1990: Lip-Synching Duo Milli Vanilli Lose Grammy Award

March 30, 1991: William Kennedy Smith Is Accused of Rape

April 5, 1991: George W. Bush Is Investigated for Insider Trading

July 26, 1991: Comedian Pee-Wee Herman Is Arrested for Public Indecency

October 11-13, 1991: Justice Clarence Thomas's Confirmation Hearings Create a Scandal

January 13, 1992: Woody Allen Has Affair with Lover Mia Farrow's Adopted Daughter

April 15, 1992: Hotel Tycoon Leona Helmsley Enters Prison for Tax Evasion

May 6, 1992: Irish Bishop Eamonn Casey's Romantic Affair Leads to His Resignation

May 19, 1992: Amy Fisher Shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco

June 26, 1992: U.S. Navy Secretary Resigns in the Wake of Tailhook Sexual Assault Scandal

August 23, 1992: Princess Diana's Phone Conversation with Her Lover Is Made Public

September 24, 1992: British Cabinet Member David Mellor Resigns Over Romantic Affair

June 23, 1993: Lorena Bobbitt Severs Her Husband's Penis

January 5, 1994: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Fathering a Child Out of Wedlock

April 28, 1994: U.S. Naval Academy Expels Midshipmen for Cheating

June 1, 1994: Congressman Dan Rostenkowski Is Indicted in House Post Office Scandal

June 12, 1994: Double Murder Leads to Sensational O.J. Simpson Trial

June 24, 1994: Time Magazine Cover Uses Altered O.J. Simpson Photo

June 30, 1994: Tonya Harding Is Banned from Skating After Attack on Rival

July 1, 1994: Soccer Star Diego Maradona Is Expelled from World Cup

August 5, 1994: Kenneth Starr Is Appointed to the Whitewater Investigation

August 21, 1994: Sex Scandal Forces Dismissal of Naacp Chief Benjamin Chavis

February 28, 1995: Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas's Brother Is Arrested for Murder

June 27, 1995: Film Star Hugh Grant Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct

November 18, 1995: Former Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney Is Exposed in Airbus Scandal

February 4, 1996: Whistle-Blower Reveals Tobacco Industry Corruption

Spring, 1996: Physicist Publishes a Deliberately Fraudulent Article

August 16, 1996: Belgian Media Reveal How Police Bungled Serial Murder Case

November 3, 1996: Car Crash Reveals Depth of Government Corruption in Turkey

January, 1997: Pyramid Investment Schemes Cause Albanian Government to Fall

February 26, 1997: Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Is Arrested for Statutory Rape

March 12, 1997: Prize-Winning Aborigine Novelist Revealed as a Fraud

May 20, 1997: Air Force Prosecution of Female Officer for Adultery Reveals Double Standard

June 25, 1997: Swiss Banks Admit to Holding Accounts of Holocaust Victims

August 31, 1997: Princess Diana Dies in a Car Crash

September 22, 1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert Is Tried for Sexual Assault

November 26, 1997: Canadian Health Commissioner Releases Report on Tainted Blood

December 11, 1997: Hud Secretary Henry Cisneros Is Indicted for Lying to Federal Agents

January 17, 1998: President Bill Clinton Denies Sexual Affair with a White House Intern.

v. 3. 1998-2008

April, 1998: Scottish Historian Is Charged with Plagiarism

April 7, 1998: Pop Singer George Michael Is Arrested for Lewd Conduct

May, 1998: Police Corruption Is Revealed in Los Angeles's Rampart Division

May 11, 1998: Journalist Stephen Glass Is Exposed as a Fraud

December 23, 1998: Prominent Belgians Are Sentenced in Agusta-Dassault Corruption Scandal

March 4, 1999: Quebec Offers Support for Abused Duplessis Orphans

May, 1999: Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Fathers a Child Out of Wedlock

May 7, 1999-March 2, 2001: Ethics Counselor Exonerates Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

January 28, 2000: John Spano Is Sentenced for Fraudulent Purchase of Ice Hockey Team

May 2, 2000: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Extramarital Affair is Revealed

May 9, 2000: Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards Is Convicted on Corruption Charges

September, 2000: American Scientists Are Accused of Starting a Measles Epidemic in the Amazon

September 19, 2000: Ex-Gay Leader John Paulk Is Photographed Leaving a Gay Bar

September 26, 2000: Gymnast Andreea Răducan Loses Her Olympic Gold Medal Because of Drugs

November 5, 2000: Japanese Amateur Archaeologist'S "Discoveries" are Proven Fakes

December, 2000: Sexual Abuse of Children in France Leads to the Outreau Affair

2001: Clearstream Financial Clearinghouse Is Accused of Fraud and Money Laundering

January 30, 2001: Liverpool Children's Hospital Collects Body Parts Without Authorization

February 18, 2001: CIA Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested for Spying for the Russians

April 30, 2001: Washington Intern Chandra Levy Disappears

June 18, 2001: Award-Winning Historian Joseph J. Ellis Is Accused of Lying

June 30, 2001: Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape

August 27, 2001: Little League Baseball Star Danny Almonte Is Found to be Overage

December 2, 2001: Enron Bankruptcy Reveals Massive Financial Fraud

December 14, 2001: Notre Dame Football Coach Resigns for Falsifying his Résumé

January 4, 2002: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism

January 6, 2002: Boston Globe Reports on Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Priests

January 18, 2002: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Is Accused of Plagiarism

February 11, 2002: French Judge Admits Favoring Russian Figure Skaters in Winter Olympics

February 17, 2002: Rotting Human Bodies Are Found at Georgia Crematory

March 27, 2002: Georgia Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, Sr., Resigns Over Fraud Allegations

June 25, 2002: Internal Corruption Forces Adelphia Communications to Declare Bankruptcy

July, 2002: Journalist Alleges Release of Genetically Modified Corn Seeds in New Zealand

August, 2002: Immunologist Resigns After Being Accused of Falsifying Research

September 25, 2002: Inquiry Reveals That Physicist Jan Hendrik Schön Faked his Research

September 28, 2002: British Politician Reveals Her Affair with Prime Minister John Major

October 25, 2002: Historian Michael A. Bellesiles Resigns After Academic Fraud Accusations

December 5, 2002: Senator Trent Lott Praises Strom Thurmond's 1948 Presidential Campaign

January 2, 2003: E-Mail Message Prompts Inquiry into Air Force Academy Sexual Assaults

March 2, 2003: U.S. National Security Agency Is Found to Have Spied on U.N. Officials

April 29, 2003: New York Times Reporter Jayson Blair Is Exposed as a Fraud

May 3, 2003: University of Alabama Fires New Football Coach in Sex Scandal

May 21, 2003: Sexually Provocative Film the Brown Bunny Premieres at Cannes Film Festival

July 1, 2003: Basketball Star Kobe Bryant Is Accused of Rape

July 14, 2003: Columnist Robert Novak Leaks the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame

September 3, 2003: Mutual Fund Companies Are Implicated in Shady Trading Practices

October 2, 2003: Newspaper Claims That Arnold Schwarzenegger Groped Women

Early November, 2003: Paris Hilton Sex-Tape Appears on the Web

December 17, 2003: Senator Strom Thurmond's Biracial Daughter Is Revealed

December 18, 2003: Pop Star Michael Jackson Is Charged with Child Molestation

March 4, 2004: Former United Way Charity Chief Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

March 5, 2004: Martha Stewart Is Convicted in Insider-Trading Scandal

April 28, 2004: CBS Broadcasts Photos of Abused and Tortured Prisoners at Abu Ghraib

June 2, 2004: U.N. Report Reveals That Secretary-General Kofi Annan Dismissed Sexual Harassment Charges

August 19, 2004: Blog "Outs" Antigay Congressman Edward Schrock

September 8, 2004: 60 Minutes II Reports on George W. Bush's Evasion of Wartime Duty

October 13, 2004: Television Producer Files Sex Harassment Suit Against Bill O'reilly

October 14, 2004: Insurance Brokerage Marsh & Mclennan Is Charged with Fraud

January 15, 2005: Iqbal Riza Resigns from the United Nations in Oil-for-Food Scandal

January 27, 2005: German Soccer Referee Admits to Fixing Games for Money

March 17, 2005: Former Baseball Star Mark Mcgwire Evades Congressional Questions on Steroid Use

June 22, 2005: U.S. Air Force Investigates Religious Intolerance at Its Academy

July 1, 2005: Federal Agents Raid Congressman Randall Cunningham's Home

Beginning August 29, 2005: Government Incompetence Mars Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

September 12, 2005: Westar Energy Executives Are Found Guilty of Looting Their Company

September 30, 2005: Danish Newspaper's Prophet Muhammad Cartoons Stir Violent Protests

November 17, 2005: Liberian Workers Sue Bridgestone Firestone Over Slave Labor

December 6, 2005: Spokane, Washington, Mayor Recalled in Gay-Sex Scandal

January 21, 2006: British Politician Resigns After Gay-Sex Orgy

March 14, 2006: Duke Lacrosse Players Are Accused of Gang Rape

April 26, 2006: Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Admits Affair with Secretary

May 4, 2006: Media Uncover Match-Fixing in Italian Soccer

May 12, 2006: Scientist Is Indicted for Faking His Research on Creating Stem Cells

Summer, 2006-March 16, 2007: Manufacturer Recalls Pet Food that Killed Thousands of American Pets

July 14, 2006: New York Times Exposes Grading Scandal at Auburn University

July 26, 2006: Tour de France Is Hit with a Doping Scandal

July 28, 2006: Actor Mel Gibson Is Caught Making Anti-Semitic Remarks

August 12, 2006: Novelist Günter Grass Admits to Youthful Nazi Ties

September 17, 2006: New Zealand Prime Minister's Husband Is "Outed" as Gay

September 18, 2006: Newsweek Reveals That Hewlett-Packard Spied on Its Own Board

September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley Resigns in Sex Scandal Involving a Teenage Page

October 22, 2006: Chilean Politicians Use Community Funds for Personal Campaigns

November 2, 2006: Evangelist Kent Hovind Is Convicted of Federal Tax Violations

November 2, 2006: Male Escort Reveals Sexual Liaisons with Evangelist Ted Haggard

November 20, 2006: News Corp Abandons Plan to Publish O.J. Simpson's Book

November 23, 2006: Former Russian Security Service Officer Dies from Radiation Poisoning

Early 2007: Subprime Mortgage Industry Begins to Collapse

February 18, 2007: Washington Post Exposes Decline of Walter Reed Army Hospital

April 11, 2007: Shock Jock Don Imus Loses His Radio Show Over Sexist and Racist Remarks

May 28, 2007: Japanese Politician Charged with Corruption Hangs Himself

June 4, 2007: Congressman William J. Jefferson Is Indicted for Corruption

July 9, 2007: Senator David Vitter's Name Is Found in D.C. Madam's Address Book

July 11, 2007: Florida Politician Is Arrested for Soliciting an Undercover Male Police Officer

July 24, 2007: University of Colorado Fires Professor for Plagiarism and Research Falsification

August 20, 2007: Football Star Michael Vick Pleads Guilty to Financing a Dogfighting Ring

September 13, 2007: New England Patriots Football Team Is Fined for Spying on Other Teams

October 5, 2007: Olympic Champion Marion Jones Admits Steroid Use

March 12, 2008: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns in Prostitution Scandal

June 13, 2008: Singer R. Kelly Is Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges

July 29, 2008: NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Is Sentenced to Prison for Betting on Games

September 7, 2008: Financial Institutions and Markets Begin to Collapse.