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Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook	Testifying before a Parliamentary inquiry in 1947, former Express employee and future MP Michael Foot alleged that Beaverbrook kept a blacklist of notable public figures who were to be denied any publicity in his papers because of personal disputes.
Shashi Tharoor	On 18 April 2010 Tharoor resigned from his post as Minister of State for External Affairs on instructions from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, following allegations that he had misused his office to get shares in the IPL cricket franchise of Cochin.
Thomas Skinner (Ceylon)	In 1848 Skinner gave a testimony before a Special Working Committee of British House of Commons on the Matale Rebellion.
Pat McQuaid	In January 2013, Sunday Times journalist David Walsh said in an interview with Global Cycling Network (GCN) -- referring to the battle against doping in cycling sport on a global scale -- that'' cycling needs new leadership'' and that Greg LeMond'' could serve as interim UCI president in an effort to pressure Pat McQuaid to leave his post''.
George Galloway	Galloway acknowledged that money had been paid into the Mariam Appeal by Iraqi businessmen who had profited from the UN-run programme, but denied benefiting personally, and maintained that, in any case, there was nothing illicit about this : Allegations In May 2005, a US Senate committee report accused Galloway along with former French minister Charles Pasqua of receiving the right to buy oil under the UN's oil-for-food scheme.
Ivor Callely	On 1 June 2010, the Taoiseach Brian Cowen requested a written explanation from Callely about his expense claims.
Mustafa Adebayo Balogun	In April 2009, the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affair invited Tafa Balogun, Mike Okiro and Mrs Farida Waziri to explain how the N16 billion allegedly recovered from Balogun got missing.
Shami Chakrabarti	On 18 April 2009, it was reported in The Times and The Daily Telegraph that policemen who raided the parliamentary office of the Conservative frontbencher Damian Green and arrested him as part of an inquiry into the leaking of Home Office documents had searched through e-mails and computer documents going back a number of years using Chakrabarti's name as one of the keywords.
Connie Mulder	However the Information Scandal stories started appearing in the media and this led to his resignation as Minister on November 8, 1978.
Mohammad Asghar	Accusations of corruption were also leveled at Asghar due to the abnormal pay arrangements he has had with several of his staff, with two staff members remaining on permanent paid leave until the Welsh assembly was dissolved in 2011.
Steve Rotheram	In October 2011, Rotheram joined the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, where he famously asked James Murdoch if he would close The Sun newspaper following the 2011 phone hacking scandal.
Stephen Lambert (media executive)	When an inquiry into the affair reported in October 2007, Lambert chose to leave RDF and at the same time, Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One, and his head of publicity, Jane Fletcher, resigned from their jobs.
Alun Cairns	In September 2008, Cairns admitted that he asked for a National Assembly rule to be'' clarified'' to determine whether he could claim expenses for a second home in Cardiff.
Anne Main	Main was investigated by The Daily Telegraph in May 2009 for claiming a second home allowance on an apartment where her daughter lived for some of the time, rent free, while she claimed back council tax, which is only applicable to those residences that have no-one living there.
Bertie Ahern	In 1993, the then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Ahern, who was then Minister for Finance, wrote to developer Owen O'Callaghan seeking a substantial donation.
Smart Adeyemi	In May 2010 the Daily Sun said Adeyemi had asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to start an investigation of members of the National Assembly whom he alleged were corrupt.
John Sadleir	He resigned his ministerial position in 1854 when he was found guilty of being implicated in a plot to imprison a depositor of the Tipperary Bank because the individual in question had refused to vote for him.
George Osborne	In 2009, he received criticism for the way he had handled his expenses, after he was found to have'' flipped'' his second home, changing which property he designated as his second home in order to pay less capital gains tax.
James Murdoch	On 22 July 2011, Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, said that James Murdoch has `` questions to answer in Parliament,'' a day after former top executives of the News of the World accused the News Corporation executive of giving `` mistaken'' evidence.
Mick McGahey	James Cowan, then deputy chairman of the NCB, claims that McGahey warned him to retire in 1983 and protect his health, as he feared that a'' bloody'' strike was inevitable with the appointment of Ian McGregor and that there would be conflict between different regions in the NUM.
Jonathan Motzfeldt	After being reported to the police for an alleged sexual assault, he chose 18 January 2008 to resign from the post of chairman of the parliament.
Carole Malone	In 2009, a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about one of Malone's columns in the News of the World which claimed that illegal immigrants receive'' free cars'', led to the publication of the following clarification by the paper : : On July 26, our columnist Carole Malone claimed illegal immigrants receive'' free cars''.
Derek Conway	In May 2009 as part of its Disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament, the Sunday Telegraph revealed that Conway had claimed the Second Home Allowance on a house in Northumberland 330 miles from his constituency.
Frank Cook	In May 2009, The Daily Telegraph revealed he had tried to reclaim, as an expense, the # 5 that an assistant had donated during a service at Stockton Parish Church to commemorate the Battle of Britain.
Bashir Khanbhai	In 2004, Khanbhai repaid # 7,000 of wrongly claimed travel expenses ; although he lived in Sevenoaks, Kent, he had registered a boatyard in Wroxham as his home address.
Jo Moore	However, on 13 February 2002 the row flared up again when a leak to the press alleged that Moore had made further attempts to'' bury'' unfavourable railway statistics on the day of a major event.
David James, Baron James of Blackheath	In April 2006 it was announced that James had been nominated for a Life Peerage by the Conservative Party The news had already been revealed in a list leaked to The Times that eventually led to the Cash for Peerages scandal.
Rosanna Wong	Under public pressure, she subsequently decided to resign from the Housing Authority four days before the Legislative Council passing the motion of no confidence on her and the Director of Housing, Tony Miller in June 2000.
Fred Goodwin	On 13 October 2008, as part of the arrangement for government support (of which Goodwin said'' This is n't a negotiation, it's a drive-by shooting''), it was announced that Goodwin was to stand down as CEO, to be replaced by Stephen Hester.
Laurie Oakes	In 1997, Oakes used leaked documents to report on abuse of parliamentary travel expenses, which ended the careers of three ministers, several other politicians and some of their staff.
Paul Keetch	In March 2010, shortly before stepping down as MP, a BBC investigation showed that Keetch had repeatedly breached House of Commons rules relating to declaring outside interests.
John Lydon	Appearing on the BBC's Question Time on 5 July 2012, Lydon questioned the notion of a parliamentary inquiry into the banking industry, saying'' How on earth is Parliament going to discuss this really when both sides, left and right, are connected to this ?
Lynne Featherstone	In May 2009, she was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the'' Saints'' in the expenses scandal.
Rupert Murdoch	In 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal.
Brian Coleman	A meeting of the London Assembly's Business Management and Administration Committee on 22 October 2009 had to be suspended for ten minutes after Coleman interrupted another speaker by shouting'' oh shut up you odious toad'' and'' you are the nastiest most odious little man who is unfortunate enough to serve in public life''.
Therese Ridge	The lobbyist Frank Dunlop, whose allegations of corruption in the rezoning of land in County Dublin were based on his own involvement in much of the alleged wrongdoing, claimed in 2000 that he had paid 16 councillors involved in rezoning decisions including that on the Quarryvale site in west Dublin.
Emma Harrison (entrepreneur)	On 29 February 2012, David Cameron announced he had launched an inquiry into her appointment, saying he had not been aware of fraud allegations at A4e when he appointed her.
Frank Fahey	In June 2009, Government minister Trevor Sargent accused Fahey in the Dáil of tax avoidance and making inappropriate decisions as a minister, and called on the Taoiseach to sack him.
Alan Carpenter	After November 2006, Carpenter removed three cabinet ministers in four months for impropriety involving former WA Premier Brian Burke, exposed by the Corruption and Crime Commission.
Kim Howells	After allegations that he hid evidence associated with the death of Wilkie, and an investigation by South Wales Police, Howells in 2004 commented in a BBC Wales documentary that when he heard the news, he thought'' hang on, we've got all those records we've kept over in the NUM offices, there's all those maps on the wall, we're gon na get implicated in this''.
Jaime Lusinchi	But From 27 March 1990, Lusinchi became the subject of a parliamentary inquiry looking at what was believed to be a corruption scandal of huge proportions that took place during his term in government.
David Wilshire	Following further investigation by The Daily Telegraph, on 14 October 2009, Wilshire asked the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to investigate his office expenses.
Gurmant Grewal	On April 6, 2005, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Joe Volpe, asked the parliamentary Ethics Commissioner and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to investigate Grewal following his testimony to a parliamentary committee.
Steven Purcell	On 4 March 2010, The Scotsman newspaper alleged that Glasgow City Council's press relations staff were preparing a press-release that stated Mr. Purcell's resignation was due to a'' chemical dependency'', but were stopped from doing so by lawyers representing Mr. Purcell who later put out the press release citing'' stress and exhaustion'' as his reasons for resigning.
Kelvin Hopkins	He also emerged well from the 2009 MPs expenses scandal, being deemed a Daily Telegraph'' saint'' for minimal second home claims.
Hugh S. Gibson	In his 1924 testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he had compared his own situation to that of an admiral, sent on a trip around the world'' with instructions to call at various ports, entertain the right people and pay for all expenses, including provisions for his ship, out of his own salary''.
Jeremy Browne	During the 2009 expenses scandal, Browne was initially asked to pay back # 17,894 in mortgage payments by the Legg Report, after re-mortgaging his London home to provide a deposit for a constituency home.
Steven Purcell	In late September 2011, Strathclyde Police's major crime unit had completed a probe into Purcell over allegations of corruption and links with gangsters during his time as Leader of Glasgow City Council and have submitted reports to the Procurator-Fiscal.
Stephen Lloyd	In the 2010 general election, Lloyd's campaign centred on local issues, his record of supporting Eastbourne residents and the Town, and highlighting Nigel Waterson's expenses claims (such as his second home which was sixty miles from the constituency in Beckenham, Kent).
Emil Savundra	com/title/tt0098260 / Scandal (1989) Because the scandal centred around the Minister of War, female escorts, the Russian defence attache, a famous actress, a senior member of the House of Lords and so many other society figures, Savundra did not come to great attention although Keeler and Rice-Davies have published their accounts including Savundra in their autobiographies and this may be when Private Eye began to notice Savundra's activities in London, which arguably was the beginning of his downfall.
Thomas Eichelbaum	In 2001, he conducted a ministerial inquiry reviewing children's evidence in the controversial Peter Ellis case.
Andy Scott (politician)	In 1998, New Democratic Party MP Dick Proctor said he overheard Scott on an airplane talking about several sensitive national matters, including the then-ongoing Vancouver Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inquiry.
Virginia Chadwick	A Greiner loyalist, Chadwick was concerned during the 1992 Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation of the Metherell Affair, when Greiner was forced to resign.
Christopher Fraser	In 2009 his expenses claims were highlighted in the Daily Telegraph ; according to the newspaper, Fraser claimed # 1,800 in public money for buying 215 trees and marking out the boundary of his second home in the constituency.
Denis MacShane	In 2008, MacShane supported House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, calling for Conservative Douglas Carswell to be disciplined for saying that Martin should resign for failing to do enough to prevent the abuse of parliamentary expense claims.
Liam Fox	In 2005 -- 6, Fox used public money, from his expense claims as an MP, to pay Adam Werritty.
Desmond Swayne	As a result of the expenses scandal, Swayne repaid # 6,131 he claimed for a new kitchen in 2006 on his second-home flat in North Kensington, and # 60.
Tommy Sheridan	However Sheridan announced that he was leaving the SSP in August 2006, after his prominent court-case victory, accusing the SSP of being part of'' the mother of all stitch ups'' involving not only their leadership, but also MI5 and News International.
Martin John O'Connor	In September 1963, in response to complaints by journalists about the lack of news sources, he was appointed to head a new press committee for the second session of the Council.
Ernest Marples	When he was made Minister of Transport in October 1959, Marples undertook to sell his shareholding in the company as he was now in clear breach of the House of Commons' rules on conflicts of interest.
Richard Body	In November 1999 Sir Richard Body put forward an Early Day Motion in support of the writer Robert Henderson who believed that his mail and telephone line had been interfered with by the security services after he had written allegedly threatening letters to Tony Blair, his wife Cherie, and various Labour MPs.
Philip Green	Sir Philip Green denied Sunday Times allegations in 2007 that his firm used overseas sweatshop s where workers in Mauritius were paid pitiful wages.
Jeffrey Donaldson	In 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Donaldson had repaid # 555 claimed for pay-to-view films in overnight hotel stays.
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan	Reid held seven Cabinet posts in seven years while Tony Blair was Prime Minister : The Prime Minister Tony Blair then sent Reid to the Department of Transport to ensure the late-running and over-budget London Underground Jubilee Line Extension was completed by the end of 2000.
Irvine Patnick	In September 2012, the publication of the report by the independent panel investigating the disaster confirmed that'' the source for these despicable untruths was a Sheffield news agency reporting conversations with South Yorkshire Police and Irvine Patnick, the then MP for Sheffield Hallam.''
Peter Abeles	He was also caught up in the allegations of corruption that centred on then NSW Premier Sir Robert Askin, with journalist David Hickie accusing him of buying his 1972 knighthood from Askin, and giving Askin a seat at the board of TNT, plus 110,000 shares.
Nick Brown	Suggestions that a vaccination strategy should have been practised in preference to the culling of hundreds of thousands of animals, made with the benefit of hindsight, did not help his cause, and he was demoted out to be the Minister of Work, with non-voting Cabinet rank, at the Department for Work and Pensions after the general election of 2001.
Michael Steiner	And in 2001 he was forced to resign after the so-called'' caviar affair'' (guardian.
Mac Harb	The committee had earlier advised Harb to repay more than $ 231,000 of claimed expenses dating back to 2005 to avoid an extensive audit into his finances.
Derek Keating	Later in December 2012 Keating was forced to return $ 7,571 to the Government, the largest sum of any TD, in what were judged to be ineligible expenses after a sample audit of ministerial expenses.
Russell Crowe	On 5 December 2010 the Sunday Telegraph reported that the NRL was investigating the business relationships Russell Crowe has with a number of media and entertainment companies in relation to the South Sydney Rabbitohs' salary cap.
Richard Copley Christie	In that capacity, he advised Bishop of Manchester James Fraser on the matters that led to the imprisonment of the Rev. Sidney Faithorn Green under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.
Mohamed Al-Fayed	In 1994, in what became known as the cash-for-questions affair, Fayed revealed the names of MPs he had paid to ask questions in parliament on his behalf, but who had failed to declare their fees.
James Wharton	In November 2013 Wharton was listed as one of the MPs who claimed expenses for energy costs incurred at his second home.
Flora Stevenson	She was convenor of the attendance committee for many years and gave evidence on this subject to a select committee on education in Scotland in 1887.
Brian Coleman	In September 2009 Coleman was found to have broken Barnet Council's code of conduct.
Robert Megarry	Also in 1979, he was unable to uphold a complaint in Malone v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (No 2), regarding phone tapping during a police investigation.
Chris Carter (politician)	On 29 July 2010 Carter was suspended from the Labour Party caucus for allegedly being behind an anonymous letter sent around the Press Gallery claiming there was a leadership challenge against Phil Goff ; a charge he has since admitted.
Kitty Ussher	On 17 June 2009, after controversial details of MP's expenses had been released in the press, Ussher resigned, citing a desire to'' prevent embarrassment to the government'' after allegations that she changed the designation of her'' main'' home for capital gains tax purposes to reduce her tax bill.
Damian Green	The investigation and arrest of Green were conducted by the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Branch headed by Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick, who had been appointed in August 2008 as the most senior anti-terrorism officer in the UK.
Rupert Murdoch	On 27 February 2012, the following day after Murdoch's controversial release of the Sun on Sunday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers informed the Leveson Inquiry that police are investigating a'' network of corrupt officials'' as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption.
Patrick Hall (politician)	He was described as one of the' saints' by the Daily Telegraph, the newspaper which broke the expenses scandal story in 2009.
Richard Bacon (politician)	In February 2007 Bacon was alleged to be the politician with the highest expenditure on taxi and car hire during the previous year, a claim which he disputed and referred to the National Audit Office.
Peter Taaffe	In the interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme The Party's Over Taaffe makes the following remarks : The Liverpool District Labour Party, which Taaffe says in the same interview had a very large attendance of 700, was suspended by the Labour Party in 1986.
David Gaiman	In 1981 he was promoted to the position of Guardian (i. e. head of the Guardian's Office), replacing Jane Kember following her criminal conviction for conspiracy against the US Government (she had been part of Scientology's Operation Snow White).
Carmen Lawrence	On 14 November 1995, the Royal Commission released a report which found that Lawrence had misled the Western Australian Parliament concerning her knowledge of and role in the tabling of the petition.
Peter Wall (British Army officer)	On 6 January 2010, Wall gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry in which he claimed that troops were vulnerable in their base at Basra Palace and in May 2010, Wall was listed amongst the top 172 government servants that earn more than the Prime Minister, with a salary of # 160-165,000, excluding his non-contributory final salary pension.
Mervyn Henry Stevenson	McArthur subsequently removed Inspector Huey from the Stevenson investigation and, in 1989, during the Fitzgerald Inquiry, was questioned as to whether his friendship with Stevenson was the reason the investigation was halted.
James Gray (British politician)	: In May 2009 Gray's expenses were highlighted in the media when he was accused of claiming for Remembrance Day wreaths.
Frits Bolkestein	In 1996, his political integrity came under heavy criticism, because it was revealed he had written a letter to the Minister of Health Els Borst, in which he asked her to help a pharmaceutical company, of which Bolkestein was member of the board of commissioners.
Sarah Southern	In 2012, she became embroiled in the so-called'' Cash for Access'' controversy after undercover journalists from The Sunday Times filmed the Conservative co-treasurer Peter Cruddas apparently offering access to the Prime Minister and his Chancellor George Osborne for # 250,000.
Yitzhak Zamir	In December 1991, Zamir quit his job claiming that he is not trusted and has not authority, as he had no power to place sanctions over journalists who broke the ethical code.
Barbara Follett (politician)	In May 2008 following the release of details of MPs expenses it emerged that the taxpayer had paid in excess of # 1,600 for window cleaning of Follett's London flat in a single year.
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail	A police report was made in 2013 by Mohd Fareez Kamal Intidzam, the political secretary for Zuraida Kamaruddin, stating that Wan Azizah's supporters had'' hunted him down''.
Scott Gunderson	The state Ethics Board ruled in 2006 that Gunderson as owner of Gundy's Sport did n't have enough of a financial interest in gun-related proposals to have a conflict.
Derek Draper	In 1998, while still working as a director at GPC Market Access, Draper was caught on tape, with Jonathan Mendelsohn, boasting to Greg Palast -- an undercover reporter from The Observer posing as a businessman -- about how they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients.
Douglas Carswell	During the 2009 expenses scandal, the Daily Telegraph published his expenses showing he had claimed, amongst other things, a # 655' love seat' and had flipped his second home.
Ruth Kelly	In November 2007 it emerged that Kelly had misused part of her # 10,000 communications allowance for party political material.
Clare Short	According to The Guardian, Short accepted # 1,580 worth of flights, hotel accommodation, food and travel expenses from al-Manar television in Lebanon in 2008.
Mike Hancock (British politician)	On 18 October 2011, amidst espionage allegations relating to his aide and mistress Katia Zatuliveter, Hancock resigned from his post on the defence select committee.