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In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.

While Jay Y. Lee's prison term was suspended earlier this month, the company remained plagued by scandal — police said the elder Lee was suspected of a separate instance of evading taxes, Reuters reported.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

As the former MP for Keighley, the admirable Ann Cryer (who has been courageously campaigning on the issue for many years) said of the failure by police to act before now: «This is an absolute scandal.

The Division of State Police has been racked by scandal in recent years, including Troopergate, when then - Gov.

That was just three weeks before McAllister — who pulls down $ 19,000 more annually than Big Apple Police Commissioner James O'Neill — was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the feds in an NYPD corruption scandal that will soon head to court.

Soares, as you'll recall, issued two separate Troopergate reports, neither of which recommended any criminal charges for key players in the scandal — although the second suggested former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had perhaps been «not truthful» about his role in the failed plot by his administration to use the State Police to discredit his then - political nemesis, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

The State Police, a once highly regarded statewide agency, has been wracked by scandal over the past four years, including Troopergate, during which Spitzer was found to have used investigators to gather information on a GOP foe, and alleged efforts by Paterson's top bodyguard to persuade a Bronx woman not to file assault charges against a top gubernatorial aide.

Timothy D. Sini, a 37 - year - old Democrat serving as the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, handily won the race for Suffolk District Attorney Tuesday night, and said he would prepare quickly to take over an office marred by political scandal in the...

A Working Families Party official told State Police she attended a meeting at LoPorto's restaurant after news of the scandal broke and said McDonough started the meeting by stating: «I don't want to be a (expletive) but I want to make sure that this conversation isn't being recorded.

In addition, Cuomo's office, according to a «law enforcement source,» informed the State Police that Valle had emerged as a key figure in the scandal and therefore could not represent any trooper snared by the investigation or have anything else to do with it.

He hotly denied any wrongdoing by then - State Police Superintendent Preston Felton, who subsequently resigned over the scandal, and also disputed Cuomo's report into the mess.

DNAinfo reported Tuesday that the top - ranking NYPD official handpicked by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to clean up the scandal - scarred License Division abruptly quit the force.

The main problem highlighted by the News of the World scandal was not that the press weren't regulated enough, but that police officers were not enforcing the existent laws.

The top ranking NYPD official hand picked by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to clean up the scandal - scarred License Division has abruptly quit the force.

In a sworn statement attributed to him by State Police, DeFiglio admitted taking part in the scandal.

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Many things have not been touched upon, like: a cash for access scandal with David Cameron's chief fundraiser offering dinner for donors at Downing Street; the sacking of soldiers by email; aircraft carriers without aircraft; Andrew Mitchell effing and blinding at police officers; and the shambolic handling of the west coast railway contract that will cost taxpayers # 40 million.

Mr. Tagoe was recently embroiled in the attempts by the government and the Ghana Police to cover up the corruption scandal involving two deputy Chiefs of Staff at Korlebu, Francis Asenso Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor.

Lee, who's represented by lawyer Eric Sanders, contends that the scandal involved many more police officers, including high - ranking cops.

Last week, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told The Post that the unfolding corruption scandal was the worst he had seen since the rampant, top - to - bottom bribery exposed by the Knapp Commission in the early 1970s.

«A month ago, we alerted the world to the dark, Orwellian plot by the Nigeria Police to implicate Governor Wike in a phoney bribe scandal.

The film — from an original screenplay by James Ellroy, re-written by Moverman — uses the 1999 Los Angeles Police Department Rampart corruption scandal as a frame, a state -LSB-...]

On top of that, DaimlerChrysler, which owned controlling interest in the company from 2000 to 2005, refused to invest much - needed capital in the company, according to Fortune, all while the company faced a recall scandal in 2003 that saw its Tokyo headquarters raided by the police.

Police investigations into the billion dollar scandal reveal top Eni officials led by Mr Descalzi were centrally involved in negotiations with Chief Dan Etete, the former Nigerian oil minister believed to have been one of the deal's main beneficiaries.

The Economist noted last November that «an unexpected by - product of Mr. Zuma's scandal - plagued presidency has been a growing public interest in the justice system...» The judiciary, said the newspaper, had acted «as a bulwark for South African democracy at a time when other institutions, including the police and state prosecutors, have been compromised.»

You know, there's a part of me who looks at the actions of each of non-raping grown men in the «Pennsylvania State University small - child - allegedly - being - raped - by - a-grown-man-who-is-part-of-the-football-hierarchy» scandal and can understand why those men could rationalize a) not immediately acting in the interests of a small child being raped, b) not immediately going to the police, c) doing only the minimum legal requirements in the situation, d) acting to keep from exposing their organization to a scandal.

Such scandals have been occurring with mind - numbing frequency since 1993, when the long - running fraud perpetrated by former West Virginia state police crime lab serologist Fred Zain first came to light.

On top of that, in both 2007 and 2009, the Hollywood Police Department was riven by scandals and allegations of corruption.

Mark Karpales, the former CEO of scandal - hit Bitcoin trading emporium Mt. Gox, has been arrested this morning by Japanese police.

Spanish police say a former HSBC technology employee convicted for leaking account data that led to a tax evasion scandal has been arrested in Madrid on an arrest warrant issued by Switzerland.