After World War 2 United States become powerful nation and dominate the world. Despite of being world most super powerful, nation suffer a number of scandal which ashamed united states.

1. Watergate Scandal was the result of the break-in at the Democratic National
Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
in June 1972. It was reported that Nixon had had a tape-recording system in
the offices and that he had recorded many conversations. The scandal leads to
the resignation of the then President of United States, Richard Nixon on 9th
August, 1974. This incident also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction
and incarceration of 43 people; including dozens of Nixon’s top
administration officials.

2. The year 1998 was not a favorable year for the highest office holder of US,
President Bill Clinton as he was blamed of being in a physical relation with the
22 years old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. In 1995, Monica
Lewinsky was hired to work as a secretary for the White House and soon
began a close personal relationship with him. The news of this extra-marital
affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of
Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives.

3. Also popular as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, the
Iran Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States that
came to light in November 1986. The gossip made many headlines
at the time and is still considered as one of the top 10 US political
scandals. The dishonesty took place during Ronald Reagan
administration where senior Reagan officials secretly assisted the
sale of arms to Iraq. The scandal began as an operation to free seven
American hostages being held by a group with Iranian ties
connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.

4. The famous Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that was
carried out in US from 1922 to 1923 during the term of President
Warren G. Harding. Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior under
Warren G. Harding, leased navy petroleum reserves to several oil
companies for nonsensically low prices. Despite Albert’s efforts to
hide the dishonesty, news about his murky dealings was leaked out
by the Wall Street Journal rocking the whole administration.
Immediately detailed investigations were made and it was found out
that Albert received a total of $404,000 as bribery. Later he was
sentenced to lockup.

5. Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal is all about the human rights violation
that took place in 2004 at the Abu Ghraib lockup in Iraq. The
tortures inflicted upon the culprits of the Abu Ghraib included
urinating on culprits, jumping on a wounded culprit’s leg, pouring
phosphoric acid on culpits, rape and sodomy using a baton. The
scandal made Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s resign and
many of the involved military personals were convicted in courts
martial and dishonorably discharged from service.

6. The Keating Five engaged five United States Senators who were accused of
corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger
Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The senators were
Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, John Glenn, John McCain and Donald W.
Riegle who were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of
Charles H. Keating which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

7. Pentagon Papers involved the unauthorized release of a 7000 page document
to the press in the year 1971. These papers were the highly secret US
Department of Defense documents pertaining to the US involvement in the
Vietnam War spanning a period of 1945 to 1971, commissioned by the
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The crime was committed by
Daniel Ellsberg, a worker with the department, by leaking it to New York
Times when he became disappointed with the role played by the US in the
war.

8. Wilson met Edith Galt just a few short months after his wife Ellen
Louise Axson had passed, and by May they were engaged. Way back
in 1914, this was very scandalous. Rumors even started that Wilson
claimed down Axson life so that he could marry Galt. Though they
were engaged they got married only after his first wife passed away.

9. Also known as Eaton affair or the Eaton malaria the Petticoat Affair is one of
the top ten US political scandals that involved members of President Andrew
Jackson’s Cabinet and their wives during 1830 – 1831. It began with the
marriage of Jackson’s secretary of war, John Henry Eaton, to recently widowed
Margaret Timberlake. The marriage proved a great scandal in American high
society; with rumors that Eaton had been having an affair with Timberlake
which led to end of her first husband’s life. Most of Jackson’s cabinet turned
against Eaton but Jackson supported him, and the controversy led to such a
conflict that almost Jackson’s entire cabinet resigned over the issue.

10. In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875,
involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents,
politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. Though it happened in St.
Louis, it was organised in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and
Peoria. According to report, a group of Republican politicians drained off
millions of dollars in federal taxes on liquor involving a far-reaching millions
of dollars in federal taxes on liquor from distillers, rectifiers, gougers,
storekeepers, and internal revenue agents.
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