Steph,

I was in error when I suggested that the culprit was a French Finance Minister. Actually, it was Jean Peyrelevade who resigned his presidency of the French bank Crédit Lyonnais due to The Economist’s exposure of his violation of American banking law in the “Executive Life Affair”. He was, indeed, a party of a mega-million dollar settlement. Interestingly, he was a close associate of Jacques Chirac's. Another of French President Chirac’s associates, the ex-Prime Minister Alain Juppe, has just been convicted of corruption.

http://www.challenges-eco.com/artic...16/a231389.html

BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan has resigned in the wake of the criticism directed at him in the Hutton report. Mr. Gilligan conceded some of his story was wrong, and apologized for it.

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