While many members of the former cabinet have been convicted of corruption, lawsuits filed against Mr Shafiq have not led to charges.
Certainly, the umpteenth scene of corruption in "Lawsuit Daddy" felt like overkill, as fun as it was for the actors to perform.
Although they are at least nominally state-owned, and dare not venture into critical reporting of the central government, the more adventurous are nonetheless peppered with tales of financial scandals, sex, natural disasters, corruption, even lawsuits against the government.
The guilty pleas come after an investigation into accusations of bribery and corruption in a lawsuit over how to divide millions of dollars in legal fees in the wake of lawsuits that sought to compel insurance companies to pay more in compensation to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
A major project to beautify the areas around the Taj Mahal monument in Agra was riddled with allegations of corruption, and a lawsuit against her eventually ended up in the Indian Supreme Court.
A New Jersey paralegal with a longstanding interest in government corruption filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the F.B.I. on Monday, seeking the release of the full case file on a murderous Brooklyn Mafia informant — papers she believes may shed light on the possible involvement of a dead New Orleans crime boss in the killing of President John F. Kennedy.
Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization that combats corruption, has filed lawsuits in France to force investigations into the stolen riches of corrupt African leaders.
The Times remains blacked out in China, and the report has kicked up a range of interesting questions about corruption, conspiracies, and diplomacy: Lawsuit?
The system, called the Education Achievement Authority, has been linked to an ongoing federal corruption investigation, which the lawsuit said "reveals the extent to which the depraved indifference and damage to the plight of children of [Detroit schools] was allowed to fester by the defendant emergency managers".
After this initial success, however, the company was beset by a number of lawsuits and corruption charges.
