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Events with high posterior probability

Ray Musto	On November 23, 2010, a federal grand jury issued a six-count indictment against Musto, charging him with accepting more than $ 28,000 from an unnamed company and individual in exchange for his help in obtaining grants and funding.
Andy Coulson	Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes, including Coulson, in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information.
Tom DeLay	Tom DeLay was charged with money laundering and conspiracy charges related to illegal campaign finance activities aimed at helping Republican candidates for Texas state office in the 2002 elections.
Brent R. Wilkes	The complaint noted that 22 of his employees as ADCS or relatives of his employees gave $ 250 each to the 2002 San Diego mayoral campaign of Ron Roberts.
Rudy Ruettiger	In 2011, Ruettiger was charged with securities fraud by the SEC, for participating in a pump-and-dump scheme.
Steven Levitt	For example, his An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances (2000) analyzes a hand-written'' accounting'' of a criminal gang, and draws conclusions about the income distribution among gang members.
Scott McInnis	As of May 20, 2011, McInnis has been cleared of any official ethics violations as an attorney by the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel (OARC).
Preston Tucker	Soon thereafter on June 10, 1949, Tucker and six other Tucker Corporation executives were indicted on 25 counts of mail fraud, five counts of violations of SEC regulations and one count of conspiracy to defraud.
Clara Nomee	However, Nomee's five terms as Chairperson were also marred by a scandal and subsequent conviction stemming from her purchase of land from the Crow Nation in 1994.
Louis Freeh	Louis Freeh said in his book My FBI that he felt the deepest about the Khobar Towers investigation, and it was not until Louis Freeh's last day in office, June 21, 2001, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia returned a 46-count indictment against 14 defendants charged with the Khobar Towers attack.
Tim Durham	In 2012, Durham was sentenced to 50 years in prison in connection with a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 5,400 investors, many of them elderly, of approximately $ 216 million, according to the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
William "Tank" Black	By July 2000, Black had pleaded guilty to providing loans to college players in Florida, was facing SEC fraud charges, was being sued by several of his players for the money they lost in Cash 4 Titles, and had been indicted in Detroit on money laundering and drug charges related to his involvement in Bryant's investments in Cash 4 Titles.
Shlomo Benizri	On 1 April 2008, Benizri was convicted of accepting bribes, breach of faith, obstructing justice, and conspiracy to commit a crime for accepting favors worth millions of shekels from his friend, contractor Moshe Sela, in exchange for inside information regarding foreign workers scheduled to arrive in Israel.
Robert Clarkson	According to a news release by the U. S. Department of Justice on July 3, 2007, the court'' found that Clarkson falsely instructed Patriot Network members that they need not file federal income tax returns.
Thomas Menino	In 2008, the Friends of Mary Cummings Park delivered a complaint to the Massachusetts Attorney General alleging breach of charitable trust by the Menino administration, which had sought to sell over 200 acres of public parkland for development.
Hildegard Puwak	On July 29, 2003 a corruption scandal broke out when Adevărul newspaper accused Puwak of facilitating access for her husband's and her son's companies to some 150,000 non-reimbursable euros through the'' Leonardo da Vinci'' EU program, while she was in charge of those funds.
Tom Horne	The 1973 SEC report alleged that as president of T. C. Horne & Co, Horne'' among other things, violated the record-keeping, anti-fraud, and broker-dealer net capital provisions of the federal securities laws and filed false financial reports with the commission.''
Jeannemarie Devolites Davis	The financial benefits between Rep. Davis and his wife, from the ICG job as well as other campaign donations to Mrs. Davis, were highlighted in a June 2007 ethics report citizensforethics.
Jack Thompson (activist)	In February 2003, Thompson asked permission to file an amicus curiae (or'' friend of the court'') brief in the Ohio case of Dustin Lynch, 16, who was charged with aggravated murder in the death of JoLynn Mishne ; Lynch was'' obsessed'' with Grand Theft Auto III.
Dhar Mann	On May 17, 2012, Mann was charged with 13 felony counts for allegedly pocketing grant money from the city of Oakland that was to be used for property upgrades.
Mark Cuban	On November 17, 2008, it was reported that the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil suit against Mark Cuban relating to alleged insider trading in the shares of Mamma.
Wilhelm Reich	While Reich was in Arizona in May 1956, one of his associates sent an accumulator part through the mail to another state in violation of the injunction, after an FDA inspector posing as a customer requested it.
Tyrone Wheatley	As a result he, and teammates Chris Hetherington, Dana Stubblefield, and Chris Cooper were called to testify before a 2003 federal grand jury investigating a laboratory that produces nutritional supplements.
Barbara L. McQuade	Significant case accomplishments during McQuade's tenure include the conviction of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on public corruption charges, the conviction and life sentence of an Al-Qaeda operative for attempting to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009, the conviction of a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice on bank fraud charges, and the convictions of former employees for stealing trade secrets from Detroit automakers.
Alberto Gutman	Charges were related to 1992 events in a home health care company with an office that was used during his senatorial campaign as headquarters.
Tony F. Mack	As part of an FBI investigation, his home was raided on 18 Jul 2012, and some offices at city hall were raided on the following day.
Sean Patrick Maloney	The Eliot Spitzer political surveillance scandal (popularly known as'' Troopergate'') broke out on July 23, 2007 when New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office admonished Spitzer's administration for ordering the State Police to create special records of Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno's whereabouts when he traveled with police escorts in New York City.
Webster Hubbell	On November 14, 1998, Hubbell was indicted for a third time, this time for alleged fraud and allegedly giving false testimony to the House Banking Committee and federal banking regulators.
Mitchell Wade	Cunningham's home, MZM's Corporate Offices and Wade's home were all simultaneously raided by a number of federal agencies with warrants on July 1, 2005.
Bernard Botein	In 1940, as the head of another special investigation, Botein uncovered fraud and waste in the awarding of state printing contracts, leading to 14 possible prosecutions, the disqualification of two companies from receiving state contracts, and a report recommending a cost-saving reorganization of the state's printing procedures.
Judith Miller	Under oath, Miller was questioned by Fitzgerald before a federal grand jury the following day, September 30, 2005, but was not relieved of contempt charges until after testifying again on October 12, 2005.
Anthony Chiappone	In 2009, Chiappone and his wife Diane were indicted on charges of official misconduct and violating campaign finance laws.
Tareq Salahi	On April 23, 2012, the Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli II, filed suit against Tareq Salahi for violating the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for failing to conduct tours that were purchased, failing to provide refunds for canceled tours and claiming other companies as official partners that had no relationship with his business.
Henry Bonilla	Federal Elections Commission records show Bonilla paid the Los Angeles - based law firm of Latham & Watkins $ 100,000 in 2006, from his campaign funds, to argue that the district boundaries were constitutional.
Randy Altschuler	Altschuler won the September 14, 2010, Republican primary over George Demos, a former Securities and Exchange Commission prosecutor, and Christopher Nixon Cox, a grandson of Richard Nixon, receiving 45.
Kenneth Tomlinson	According to the New York Times, U. S. State Department investigators determined in 2006 that he had'' used his office to run a' horse racing operation','' that he'' improperly put a friend on the payroll'', that he'' repeatedly used government employees to perform personal errands'', and that he'' billed the government for more days of work than the rules permit''.
Carol Moseley Braun	Moseley Braun was the subject of a 1993 Federal Election Commission investigation over $ 249,000 in unaccounted-for campaign funds.
Benigno Fitial	Lieutenant Governor Timothy Villagomez resigned from office on April 24, 2009, following his conviction on federal criminal charges related to fraud while he was a member of the CMNI House of Representatives.
John Brooks Leavitt	In a letter to John Brooks Leavitt of January 26, 1900, for instance, E. L. Godkin told the New York attorney that barring extraordinary events, he was happily removing himself from public service in the face of the greed and corruption of elected officials.''
W. Carlton Weddington	One count in the indictment charged that Weddington made false statements in the'' Committee to Elect Weddington'' 2011 annual campaign finance report filed with the Ohio Secretary of State.
Rick Scott	He resigned as Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997 amid a controversy over the company's business and Medicare billing practices ; the company ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $ 600 million, which was the largest fraud settlement in US history ; Scott however was not implicated and no charges were raised against him personally.
Brent R. Wilkes	On November 5, 2007, Wilkes was convicted of 13 felonies for bribing former congressman Randy `` Duke'' Cunningham with expensive meals, trips, a yacht and mortgage payments for his Rancho Santa Fe mansion in exchange for lucrative government defense contracts.
Hatton W. Sumners	As a result of his investigations and his campaign against drinking and vice, Sumners was not re-elected in 1902 He continued his campaign against gambling and voting irregularaties in Dallas, ultimately influencing state legislation enacted to reform the system, after which, Sumners was elected Dallas County prosecutor again.
Richard Codey	In September, 2006, during Mr. Menendez's re-election campaign for his U. S. Senate seat, it was revealed that Menendez was the subject of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
Larry Craig	In June 2012, the Federal Election Commission sued Craig for repayment of $ 217,000 of campaign funds which he used to pay for his defense in the case.
Clint Curtis	On May 10, 2001, shortly after leaving Yang and accepting a job with the Florida Department of Transportation, Curtis reported that Yang had overbilled the FDOT and hired an illegal alien.
Joseph Berrios	In its final determination dated June 20, 2012 the Cook County Board of Ethics recommended that Berrios remove his son and sister from the County payroll and fined Berrios $ 10,000 total ($ 5,000 for each of two relatives he hired).''
Daniel Mudd	In December, 2011, Mudd and other Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives were charged by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission with securities fraud.''
Thomas Murphy (Irish republican)	Murphy was arrested in Dundalk, County Louth on 7 November 2007 by detectives from the Criminal Assets Bureau on charges relating to alleged revenue offences.
Jose M. Hernandez	In March 2012, Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a law firm with links to the California Republican Party, sued in Sacramento County Superior Court to block Hernandez from describing himself as an'' astronaut/scientist/engineer'' on the June ballot.
Christopher Cox	In late December 2008, following the confession by New York investment advisor Bernard Madoff and the filing of SEC charges against him alleging a $ 50 billion fraud, Cox stated that he was'' gravely concerned'' that'' specific and credible evidence'' provided to the agency over a period of at least 10 years had not previously been referred to the Commission for commencement of a formal investigation.
Vincent Orange	In June 2011, it was reported that Orange may have received as much as $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from Jeffrey Thompson, CEO of a health provider accused of defrauding the DC government.
James Rand, Jr.	In July 1939, he along with the top executives of three other typewriter manufacturing companies were personally sued by the U. S. Department of Justice for antitrust violations.
Bob F. Griffin	In January 1992 after endorsing a 6 percent gasoline tax to improve the state highway system, Griffin was accused of meeting with members of the Heavy Constructors Association of Kansas City and the Associated General Contractors of Missouri at a Jefferson City, Missouri hotel where he told them they should hire Cathryn Simmons to lobby for the tax.
Carl McCall	In May 2009, Convent Capital, the financial services firm run by McCall, was subpoenaed, along with other unregistered placement agents, by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office as part of an inquiry into possible corruption involved in deals brokered between investment firms and the state pension fund.
Janne Kristiansen	In March 2012 police investigations of Kristiansen were dropped by the Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs.
James Comey	In December 2003, as Deputy Attorney General, Comey appointed the U. S. Attorney in Chicago, close friend and former colleague Patrick Fitzgerald, as Special Counsel to head the CIA leak grand jury investigation after Attorney General John Ashcroft recuse d himself.
Patrick Fitzgerald	On February 1, 2006, the U. S. Attorney's Office under Fitzgerald announced that it was indicting nineteen members of Risciso, a software and movie piracy ring, in U. S. District Court in Chicago.
Jim Edgar	In a Chicago Tribune op-ed after the arrest of then-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, Edgar said that citizens need to get involved and pay attention to the actions of government officials, and noted that most news media covered investigations of Blagojevich in 2006, yet Blagojevich was still re-elected.
Lewis Libby	After Libby's indictment in the CIA leak grand jury investigation, in 2005, St. Martin's Press reissued The Apprentice as a mass market paperback (Griffin imprint).
Bob Ney	Even before his indictment, Ney was one of the Republican elected officials whom Democrats highlighted as part of a'' culture of corruption'' in the 2006 campaign.
Marcus Schrenker	On December 31, 2008, Schrenker's Indiana state financial adviser's license expired and authorities from Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita's Securities Division raided his home in search of evidence of securities violations.
Karl Holz (Nazi)	In 1940, in connection with the Streicher irregularities involving the Aryanization of Jew ish assets, Holz was temporarily stripped of all his offices.
Patrick C. Lynch	Lynch has since been criticized for accepting $ 4,250 in contributions from DuPont lawyers and lobbyists, and his opponent in the 2006 elections filed a complaint with the Rhode Island Ethics Commission.
Paulo Maluf	On March 9, 2007, Robert M. Morgenthau of the Manhattan's District Attorney's office issued an indictment against Paulo Maluf for money laundering in relation to a kickback and inflated invoice scheme that allegedly stole $ 11.
Joe Byrd (Cherokee chief)	By late 1998, there were 11 active cases against Byrd, including two criminal charges regarding diversion of Federal funds.
Eliot Spitzer	On July 16, 2008, The New York Times made public that Spitzer used campaign funds to pay for two Mayflower Hotel bookings, $ 411.
Kong Hee	On 31 May 2010, the Office of the Commissioner of Charities and the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police began investigating more than 18 individuals linked to the City Harvest Church, including church founder Pastor Kong Hee and his wife, Sun Ho, after receiving complaints alleging the misuse of church funds.
Don Young	2013 Federal Investigation In March 2013, the House Ethics Committee created another special committee to investigate more allegations that Young improperly accepted gifts, used campaign funds for personal expenses, failed to report gifts in financial disclosure documents, and made false statements to federal officials.
Dean Buntrock	In 2002, Dean Buntrock, as well as the other officers of Waste Management Inc., were indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aubrey W. Young	In 1981, Young and four others, including Marcello, New Orleans attorney Vincent A. Mannello, lobbyist I. Irving Davidson, and Charles E. Roemer, II, a former aide to Governor Edwin Washington Edwards and the father of Edwards' second successor, Charles E.'' Buddy'' Roemer, III, were charged in U. S. District Court in New Orleans with conspiracy, racketeering, and mail and wire fraud in a scheme to bribe state officials to give the five men multi-million dollar insurance contracts.
Anthony Chiappone	In a plea agreement on June 25, 2010, Chiappone pleaded guilty to filing false campaign finance reports, and in exchange the charges against his wife were dropped.
Hazen Argue	In 1989, he became the first senator ever charged with misuse of public funds and fraud.
Robert B. Cohen	In 1981, Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court to paying Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union officials $ 37,000 in exchange for favorable treatment in dealings between the union and his companies.
Randall L. Tobias	On April 26, 2007, Tobias was questioned by Federal investigators, regarding any services he received from the escort service owned by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who has been charged with prostitution - related racketeering.
William Weld	In 1983, the Boston Globe stated :'' The U. S. Attorney's office has not lost a single political corruption case since Weld took over, an achievement believed to be unparalleled in the various federal jurisdictions.''
Judith Miller	On October 1, 2004, federal Judge Thomas F. Hogan found Miller in contempt of court for refusing to appear before a federal grand jury, which was investigating who had leaked to reporters the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative.
Dennis Hastert	In 2012, a Chicago Tribune investigation found that Hastert had used his taxpayer-funded office to conduct private business.
Paul Dee	According to news reports, from 2002 through the end of Dee's tenure, booster Nevin Shapiro provided Miami football and basketball players with numerous benefits that violated NCAA rules including hundreds of thousands of dollars, gifts, prostitutes, access to yachts and housing, and expensive social events.
Steven M. Biskupic	In January 2006, under Biskupic's direction Ms. Georgia Thompson a Wisconsin state procurement supervisor was prosecuted for corruption charges related to a state travel contract.
Vito Lopez	According to multiple media account in September 2010, Lopez and the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council are the subject of several investigations, led by the US Attorney in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, and the New York City Department of Investigations.
Aaron Broussard	xml & coll 1 -LSB- 15 ] -RSB- Broussard resigned his position on January 8, 2010 in the face of a grand jury investigation of his staff.
Karl Auerbach	In November, 2000, shortly after Auerbach's public election to the ICANN board of directors, he asked to see the non-profit's internal financial and other corporate records, which, under California law, he was entitled to see.
Diane Hathaway	On January 18, 2013, federal prosecutors filed a felony criminal bank fraud charge against Hathaway, only days prior to her exit from the state's highest court.
Peter Pocklington	On June 4, 2013, Decision # 73864 was rendered by the Arizona Corporations Commission, which include the following :'' Therefore, on the basis of the Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Respondents consent the entry of this Order... the Commission finds that the following relief is appropriate, in the public interest, and necessary for the protection of investors :'' IT IS ORDERED... that Respondents (CRYSTAL PISTOL RESOURCES, LLC, CRYSTAL PISTOL MANAGEMENT, LLC, LIBERTY BELL RESOURCES I, LLC, PETER POCKLINGTON and JOHN M. MCNEIL), and any of Respondents' agents, employees, successors and assigns, permanently cease and desist from violating the Securities Act.''
Charles Navarro	He testified also in the 1975 trial of a woman who was charged with taking part in a'' multimillion dollar plan to defraud the Los Angeles municipal treasury by cashing stolen city checks.''
Bill Clinton	In 1998, he was impeached for perjury before a grand jury and obstruction of justice during a lawsuit against him, both related to a scandal involving a White House intern.
Alan Schwarz	In November and December 2009, under significant legislative and public pressure, the N. F. L. ended its denials of the long-term risks of football : It revamped its rules regarding concussion management, suspended its study of retired players' cognitive decline which Schwarz had exposed as improperly designed, and accepted the resignations of the two co-chairmen of a league committee that had conducted questionable research.
Robert Mueller	Director Mueller, along with Acting Attorney General James B. Comey, offered to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional.
Hank Hanegraaff	Hanegraaff sued longtime critic William Alnor for alleging that Hanegraaff's fundraising was under investigation for mail fraud.
John Perzel	On September 10, 2008 the office of then - State Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that Perzel was under investigation for deals he made with the data firm Aristotle, Inc. during his tenure as Speaker of the House.
Steve Rothman	In 2009, the Rothman campaign reported to the Federal Election Commission that one of its credit cards had been stolen and used to run up thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges at a motel in Bethesda, Maryland, mostly to rent videos and order pizzas.
Julianne Ortman	On February 21, 2008, Ortman requested that the Subcommittee on ethics determine whether she had a conflict of interest as chief author of two bills, SF294 and SF2984, due to her employment as the Finance Director in the Office of the Hennepin County Sheriff.
Erin Kenny	On July 24, 2003, Kenny plea ded guilty to a'' three-count criminal indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud for the purpose of depriving the citizens of Nevada of her honest services as a Clark County Commissioner.''
Shlomo Benizri	Although he retained his seat, on 29 March 2006, the day following the elections, he was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and breaching the public trust.
Ed Fagan	On April 2, 2007, Appellate Division, 1st Department held that Fagan had'' violated a number of disciplinary rules prohibiting an attorney from disregarding a court's rulings, engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, misrepresentation or deceit, and acquiring a proprietary interest in the subject of the litigation.''
Rob Waiz	During Waiz's 2007 campaign he asked for the removal of the Ethics Commission's attorney Larry Wilder on April 10, 2007.
Jim Bowden	In February 2009, it was reported that Bowden along with former special assistant Jose Rijo was part of an FBI federal investigation into the skimming of signing bonus money from Latin American baseball players.
Ben Bernanke	In a letter to Congress from then - New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo dated April 23, 2009, Bernanke was mentioned along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in allegations of fraud concerning the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America.
Maynard Jackson	In 1979, with a soaring murder rate and nationwide publicity about crime there, Georgia Governor George Busbee, acting on a request from Mayor Maynard Jackson, called in Georgia State Patrol troopers to help patrol the downtown.