Jan 7th, 2009 · After the Blagojevich scandal broke, EbonyJet.com writer Eric Easter started thinking about the role of favors in his own life. Making a connection, granting access and providing information could all be considered simple favors, or could cross the line into corruption.
Jan 5th, 2009 · Griffin Bell, attorney general in the Carter administration, has died at age 90. He had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Bell arrived at the Justice Department in 1977 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, and his impact is still felt.
Jan 5th, 2009 · The House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing Monday into the scandal involving disgraced investor Bernard Madoff. Madoff is accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Chairman Paul Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pa., tells Steve Inskeep the hearing will investigate why the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to detect the scandal.
Jan 5th, 2009 · Verdicts are expected soon in the ongoing scandal over tainted milk in China. The contaminated milk has so far killed six children and made nearly 300,000 sick. The government last week announced details of a compensation plan, but some victims' families are questioning the plan.
Jan 4th, 2009 · The new film Frost/Nixon tells the story of Richard Nixon's 1974 interview with David Frost. Nixon's encounters with Frost were perhaps the closest the former president came to apologizing to the American public for the Watergate scandal. Author Jim Reston Jr., the man who helped Frost prepare for those interviews, gives host Guy Raz the real back story.
Jan 3rd, 2009 · Chinese dairies linked to the tainted milk scandal that sickened thousands of children sent a mass text-message to mobile phone users. "We sincerely apologize and beg your forgiveness," it said.
Dec 31st, 2008 · A 1969 Supreme Court decision renders it almost impossible for the Senate to outright deny a seat to Ronald Burris, the man tapped to serve the remainder of President-elect Obama's Senate term by Illinois' scandal-dogged Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Dec 25th, 2008 · The new film Nothing But The Truth presents a fictionalized reworking of the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak affair. It was one of the most prominent scandals of the Bush years — tarnishing the White House, the press and the courts.