Scandal | Politician |
Governor of New York used the Emperors Club VIP prostitution service to meet $1,000/ night escorts. No charges were filed since no public funds were used, though he resigned anyway | |
Detroit Mayor, accused of extramarital affair with his Chief-of-Staff, Christine Beatty. Racy text messages between them uncovered by the press contradicted their sworn denials of | |
Governor of New Jersey, admitted that he had an extramarital affair with Golan Cipel an Israeli national, who he appointed as homeland security advisor. | |
Speaker of the House of Representatives (R-GA) admitted to having an affair with (his current wife, Callista Bisek, his third) while still married to his second wife in the late 19 | |
President (D-AR) intern Monica Lewinsky allegedly had oral sex with The President. Leading him to famously declare on TV on January 26, 1998 that 'I did not have sexual relations w | |
US Congressman who called for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. His own sexual hypocrisy was alleged by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt who claims his second wife said he was cheating | |
US Senator was forced to resign his office when his vehement denials of any wrongdoing (after 29 women came forward with claims of sexual harassment, abuse, and assaults) were even | |
indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for a relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer (1994.) He was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction | |
Found intoxicated with stripper Fanne Foxe. He was re-elected anyway, though after he gave an intoxicated press conference from Foxe's burlesque house dressing room, he resigned. | |
President (D) and future Vice President William Rufus King (D-NC) were the subject of scandalous gossip (alleging a homosexual affair) in Washington, D.C. for many years. Andrew Ja | |
was accused of fathering the children of his slave Sally Hemmings by the published articles of James Callender | |
Congressman (D-NY) Resigned to avoid an ethics investigation into his alleged behavior of groping and tickling a young male staffer. | |
House Majority Leader, reprimanded twice by House Ethics Committee and aides indicted (2004–2005); eventually he himself was indicted. | |
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The FBI seized $90,000 in cash from his home freezer. He was re-elected anyway, but lost in 2008. He was convicted of 11 counts of bribery and sentenced to 13 years on November 13, | |
pleaded guilty on November 28, 2005 to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion. | |
found guilty on 10 felony counts of financial corruption, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison and expelled from the House | |
Secretary of Interior, 1981–1983, charged with 25 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, sentenced to five years probation, fined $5,000 and 500 hours of community servic | |
convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents, but the ruling was overturned since he had been granted immunity | |
Abscam: Senator (D-NJ) Convicted on 9 counts of bribery and conspiracy. Sentenced to 3 years in prison. | |
Senator (D-NJ) Convicted on 9 couVice President, convicted of tax fraud stemming from bribery charges in Maryland and forced to resign.nts of bribery and conspiracy. Sentenced to 3 | |
Was not nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court after publication of a 20-year-old speech: 'I yield to no man... in the firm, vigorous belief in the principles of white supremacy.' Was | |
V-P nominee delivers 'Checkers Speech', to deflect scandal about $18,000 in gifts, maintaining the only personal gift he had received was a dog | |
Senator (R-WI), Head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, which was a well publicized and vicious congressional investigation into the supposed spread of Communism in | |
District of Columbia Mayor caught on videotape using drugs in an FBI sting. | |
US Senator who pled guilty to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room in June, after having been arrested on a charge of homosexual lewd conduct. | |
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