One of the things that sets "Scandal" apart from other dishy prime time soaps is its sharp take on women and politics.
DealBook » Currency Rates May Face New Regulation | Bloomberg News reports: "Global regulators may start overseeing currency rates in a widening response to benchmark-rate setting scandals that began with revelations on the manipulation of Libor, according to two people familiar with the matter".
The intervention of the Supreme Court pushed into yet another setting a scandal that also includes a federal criminal investigation into the governor's conduct relating to gifts and benefits he received from people doing business with the state.
The latest turn involves the Royal Bank of Scotland refusing to cooperate with the Canadian authorities investigating the bank's possible role in the rate-setting scandal.
Mr Tucker is a strong candidate but his entanglement in the LIBOR rate-setting scandal has hurt his chances, however unfairly.
As the Justice Department weighs the possibility of criminal charges in the unfolding Libor rate-setting scandal, it may want to consider the record of the Swiss banking giant UBS.
That story comes to mind as the Vatican wrestles with the consequences of a patriarchal premodern mind-set: scandal, cover-up and the clumsiest self-defense since Watergate.
If Mr. Xi's disappearance was political, one can only surmise that the lack of an announcement of a date for the congress means there is important unfinished business to be resolved, including this week's trial of Wang Lijun, Bo Xilai's former associate whose dramatic drive to the U.S. Consulate in February set that scandal in motion.
A1 Iraq Corruption Case Guilty Plea A former American government official in Iraq who is at the center of a corruption investigation pleaded guilty, but not before asserting that an American businessman who has also been arrested had set the scandal in motion.
Such trips by Mr. Bruno were what Mr. Spitzer's aides were hoping to learn more about, Mr. Cuomo found in his report, when they set the scandal in motion by asking officials of the State Police to recreate the senator's travel itineraries.
The obvious reason for this is Apple´s desire to keep up the appearance of a premium, luxury product (Sony took a similar tactic with their infamous price-setting scandals of decades past).
