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La Trice M. Washington is associate professor of Political Science at Otterbein University. She is the author of The Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999: A Case Study of Role Orientations of Legislators, the President, and Interest Groups (University Press of America 2003). Dr. Washington’s research interests include veteran’s affairs, public policy formulation, and political scandals.
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Sex Based Political Scandals of the 21st Century
David Wu
Anthony Weiner
Chris Lee
Mark Souder
Eric Massa
Tom Ganley
Samuel B. Kent
John Ensign
John Edwards
Vito Fossella
Tim Mahoney
Randall L. Tobias & “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey
David Vitter
Larry Craig
Mark Foley
Brian J. Doyle
Jack Ryan
Don Sherwood
David Dreier
Ed Schrock
Gary Condit
General David Petraeus
Chapter 3 – Non-Sex Based Political Scandals of the 21st Century
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D)
Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Joe Wilson (R-SC)
G. Thomas Porteous
Kwame Kilpatrick
Lewis Libby: Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R)
Alphonso Jackson (R)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and “Lawyergate”
Bush White House E-mail Controversy
Lurita Alexis Doan (R)
Jack Abramoff
Kyle Dusty Foggo
Julie MacDonald (R)
Claude Alexander Allen, II (R)
Lester Crawford (R)
Yellowcake Scandal
Coalition Provisional Authority Cash Payment Scandal
Bush Administration’s Payment of Columnists
Samuel “Sandy” Berger (D)
Bernard Kerik (R)
Waterboarding Torture Scandal
NSA Warrantless Surveillance Scandal
Kenneth Lay (R) and the Enron Scandal
Janet Rehnquist (R)
John Yoo (R)
Rick Renzi (R)
John Doolittle (R-CA)
Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
William J. Jefferson (D-LA)
Bill Janklow (R-SD)
Robert Torricelli, Senator (D-NJ)
Jim Traficant (D-OH)
Chapter 4 – Conclusion
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