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SF Gate
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The Justice Department overreached in prosecuting a former Bush administration official in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it dismissed some charges and ordered a new trial on others.
The decision overturns t..
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SF Gate
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A day after his predecessor's sex scandal propelled him into office, Gov. David Paterson revealed Tuesday that he had affairs with a "number of women," including a state employee, but said that does not affect his ability to lead.
Paterson had admitted..
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SF Gate
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who took office with the vow "Day One, Everything Changes," started day one of his life after allegations of a prostitution scandal with his outlook so changed that many wondered if he could remain in power.
The first-term Democrat..
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FOX News
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The United Nations Development Program, already mired in controversy for its dealings with North Korea, now faces another scandal involving the people who spend its $5.2 billion annual budget — and shut down its computerized financial management system..
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Yahoo News
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The president's men have fallen on hard times.
With US President George W. Bush already facing a tough second term with a dismal approval rating hovering around 30 percent, his inner circle has been hit hard by scandals and a chorus of calls for resign..
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Denver Post
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Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles' guilty plea to obstruction of justice last week marked another disgraceful chapter in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.
It also served as a reminder of how poorly the Interior Department and t..
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Alter Net
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Despite Karl Rove's portrayal of the U.S. Attorney scandal as something for Congress to "play around with," Bush officials will likely end up paying for their lying and ethical mistakes.
Top White House aide Karl Rove continues to portray the U.S. Atto..
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USA Today
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Democratic lawmakers are eager to hear from outed CIA operative Valerie Plame as they try to make political fodder out of the 2003 leak scandal.
Plame was scheduled to testify before a congressional committee Friday, but it was unlikely the hearing wou..
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Yahoo News
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President George W. Bush has the constitutional power to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but will he do it?
Democrats were immediately suspicious that he would, the White House was careful not to rule it out, and Intrade, an online prediction exchange on..
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CNN
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Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
Libby was convicted of:
# obstruction of justice when he intentionally deceived a grand jury investigating..
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ABC News
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Could a guilty verdict for a former aide bring further criminal scrutiny of Vice President Dick Cheney? "Yes," said Sol Weisenberg, a former deputy independent counsel to former Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. As a federal jury delibera..
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New York Times
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A picture taking shape from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. shatters any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion throughout President Bush’s first term. The trial against Mr. Libby..
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USA Today
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Prosecutors who spent more than three years on the CIA leak case, like the defense lawyers on the other wide, have been given just three hours to make their final arguments to jurors. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the investigation, wa..
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Reuters
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The columnist who touched off a criminal investigation when he disclosed the identity of a CIA analyst testified on Monday that defendant Lewis "Scooter" Libby was not the one who blew her cover. As Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick C..
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Yahoo News
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David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation. In the fall of 2003, President Bush's press secretary was categorica..
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Yahoo News
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A summary of testimony from witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby:..
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SF Gate
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Former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby acknowledged he may have discussed with Vice President Dick Cheney whether to tell reporters that a prominent war critic's wife worked at the CIA, an FBI agent testified Thursday...
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Boston Globe
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A smorgasbord of Washington insider details emerged during the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff...
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SF Gate
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In July 1987, then-Rep. Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim...
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SF Gate
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A day after Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for president, a corruption scandal involving a fundraiser who once bankrolled his campaign resurfaced to slightly dampen the festivities.
Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, 52, was convic..
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