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📰 Scandals

Political and leak cases that changed governments and reporting.

Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.

📰 Scandals Watergate scandal 1972 · Mixed outcome A 17 June 1972 break-in at the DNC in Washington's Watergate complex became a cover-up that ended in Richard Nixon's resignation on 9 August 1974 and a wave of United States ethics law. Open → 📰 Scandals Panama Papers 2016 · Mixed outcome On 3 April 2016 ICIJ and more than a hundred outlets began publishing 11.5 million files from Panama firm Mossack Fonseca, a leak that toppled governments and left a mixed dock of inquiries. Open → 📰 Scandals Park Geun-hye / Choi Soon-sil scandal 2016 · Convicted In 2016 Korean reporting showed that Choi Soon-sil had used her access to President Park Geun-hye to shake companies and warp state decisions. Candlelight crowds, impeachment and convictions followed. Open →