The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China to influence domestic United States politics during the 1996 federal elections. The Chinese government denied all accusations. Twenty-two people we
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The 1995 Okinawa rape incident refers to a rape that took place on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill and U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp and Kendrick Ledet, all from Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a
Continue reading >>Samuel Insull (November 11, 1859 – July 16, 1938) was a British-born American business magnate whose vast Midwest holding company empire collapsed in the 1930s.
Continue reading >>Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations inCalifornia to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases becam
Continue reading >>In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskeydistillers, and distributors. The Whiskey Ring began in St. Louis but was also organize
Continue reading >>The letter from the lawyer representing Jodie Fisher, the woman who accused former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd of sexual harassment over several years, has been unsealed by a Delaware court.
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