financial scandal

LISBON—Spain’s former monarch, Juan Carlos I, is leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family’s website Monday.

Malaysia’s attorney general said Tuesday that nearly $700 million channeled into Prime Minister Najib Razak’s private accounts was a personal donation from Saudi Arabia’s royal family, and cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing

Malaysia’s prime minister vowed he would not quit over a $700-million financial scandal, and accused protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his resignation on the eve of the country’s National Day on Monday

A former aid to DC Mayor Vincent Gray, Vernon Hawkins, pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal investigators on Tuesday, Aug 13.

Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a Senate panel Tuesday that he had purposely distanced himself from the activities of the IRS Determinations Unit because he could not be completely nonpartisan regarding an organization’s political advocacy.