This includes not only individuals, politicians and big corporations but also, as the current scandal has shown, people with links to organized crime.
And as the corporate scandals have shown, it's the chief executive who sets the tone, in both virtue and vice.
"As this disturbing scandal has shown, we need more vigorous oversight over nonmayoral agencies."
The law was passed after accounting scandals showed that controls were lacking in some major companies.
As the scandal at Abu Ghraib shows, however, there are more important principles.
Taken together, these scandals show that both left and right are in trouble.
The scandal, however, showed a lack of consistency in the program.
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This scandal shows the great danger of being organized this way.
The latest scandal to hit the music business shows that just as the industry has turned corporate in recent decades, so too has its underbelly.