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The corruption
scandal
at energy giant Petrobras is finally causing ratings agencies to reassess Brazil, but the move comes too late, and their downgrades probably will not be sufficient to reflect the true risk.
Hong Kong’s Hollow LeadershipHONG KONG – Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has been dogged by
scandal
from his first days in office, and his personal integrity is routinely impugned by much of the public.
The
scandal
at Enron, in its final days, was that management prevented employees from selling their Enron shares while executives unloaded their own shares.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official’s dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
The options backdating
scandal
that recently caught Apple’s chairman, Steve Jobs, is a microcosm of innovation, prosecution, and reform; now that a rule has been written to prohibit backdating, this particular scam will not happen again.
Under US President Ronald Reagan and his vice president and successor, George H. W. Bush, the situation was complicated further by the Iran-Contra scandal, in which senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran between 1985 and 1987, despite an arms embargo.
If Enria were to resign or – God forbid – be forced out by a
scandal
in the near future, bank regulators everywhere would get the message: “Nice job you have there – it would be a shame if anything happened to it.”
So a
scandal
about spousal abuse quickly morphed into one about possible security lapses.
Of course, India is not experiencing any Arab-style “youth quakes” in response to the current corruption
scandal
plaguing the Congress Party-led government.
In January of 2000, following the economic implosion caused by a banking
scandal
that implicated President Mahuad, and Mahaud's subsequent replacement of the Sucre with the US dollar as Ecuador's currency, CONAIE solidified its role at the heart of Ecuadorian politics.
As for other government ministers, their shame-faced apologies for the Windrush
scandal
have been all the louder, because the story broke the same week that the heads of government of the Commonwealth met in London for their biennial conference.
Germany is Not VolkswagenMUNICH – The Volkswagen
scandal
has raised questions about the German model of production.
Indeed, the lesson of the Volkswagen
scandal
is that this culture may be necessary for its export model to work.
Likewise, Volkswagen’s close relationship with the German government has led to accusations that regulators went easy on the company, setting the stage for the emissions-testing
scandal
in which the carmaker is now embroiled.
The ongoing Trump-Russia
scandal
ranks among the country’s most famous – including the Teapot Dome affair of the 1920s, the collapse of the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s, and more recently Bernie Madoff’s Wall Street Ponzi scheme – and it is all the more menacing for involving a hostile power.
Yet despite the scandal, migrant workers and children in school uniforms are still being abducted from other provinces and pushed into monstrous brick plants and coalmines.
With respect to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it is still unclear what Facebook knew, and when it knew it.
But, given that it has failed to conduct a comprehensive internal audit of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as requested by the European Parliament, there is every reason to fear that the upcoming European Parliament election in May will be subject to still more foreign manipulation.
Britain is convulsed by a
scandal
about parliamentary expenses that has no equivalent since the attacks on “old corruption” in the early nineteenth century.
Still others will argue that the charges she faces in connection with a financial
scandal
in France will distract her from IMF business.
After the ugly
scandal
surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her predecessor at the Fund, the Fund, critics will insist, can’t afford such a distraction.
Third, in Britain at least, the entire political class has been discredited by a sleazy
scandal
about the expenses that many parliamentarians have paid themselves.
Though Juppé, like Sarkozy, is no stranger to
scandal
– he was temporarily barred from public office for abuse of public funds during Chirac’s tenure as mayor of Paris – his age is reassuring to French voters, who consider him wiser and mellower now (he was also widely viewed as Chirac’s scapegoat).
But such spending on imported rice is a scandal, because, with the help of wise policies, African farmers could grow much more rice, perhaps enough to eliminate virtually all imports.
The problem has long pervaded News Corp and 21st Century Fox, both formally spun off from the original News Corporation in 2013, after the News of the World
scandal
in 2011, when employees of the British tabloid were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence.
News Corp’s board of directors, which at the time of the hacking
scandal
included venture capitalist Thomas Perkins (who likened the so-called war on the top 1% of income earners to the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews), was a textbook example of poor corporate governance.
After the hacking
scandal
erupted, the board was uncritically supportive of Murdoch.
Most important, even after a major scandal, and even after a company split, they have reverted to business as usual as soon as public attention has waned.
In the Abu Ghraib scandal, the army and the Bush administration have hardly been good teachers, and the public and the media have also been complicit.
The incursion has even been linked to the
scandal
surrounding Chongqing’s disgraced former Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, who had close ties with high-ranking PLA and security-services officers.
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