He called the current debate an "echo" of the old scandal.

However, I believed that in a general election, these old scandals would finally be investigated by the press.

There was no point in digging up old scandals, the farmer said.

Could it have been a roundabout reference to that old scandal?

Jack tells the Judge that the old scandal will become known if he does not cooperate.

Even as the old scandals inched through the court system, new ones cropped up.

"I hope you're not raking up that old scandal," the painter said.

There's enough news to go round without dragging up old scandals.

And the old scandals become part of accepted truth sometimes.