The payoff scandal that toppled a Japanese Prime Minister is now reaching out to entangle a former U.S. President.

The incident Friday night, which could result in new penalties for Olympique Marseilles, was the latest blow to a team stripped of its championship title because of a payoff scandal.

He compiled a 10-18-2 record from 1953 to 1955, before being removed due to a payoff scandal.

In 1978, faced with accusations of links to a payoff scandal involving the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, he resigned as president six months before the end of his seven-year term.

The former House majority leader, Tom DeLay, resigned under indictment, and the payoff scandal surrounding the lobbyist Jack Abramoff may ensnare others as well.

In the wake of a recent payoff scandal involving a fifth of the city's restaurant inspectors, some agencies have also begun rotating inspectors' partners, duties and supervisors on a regular basis.

The team was involved in a payoff scandal that led to NCAA sanctions for the school and the firing of Cherberg in 1955.

Connecticut, reeling from a payoff scandal that unseated its governor, recently passed a pay-to-play law that takes aim at a time-tested tactic for evading contribution limits: funneling money through dependents.

Mr. Lent said the payoff scandal surrounding the lobbyist Jack Abramoff had made life more difficult for honest lobbyists like himself.

Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin, the company linked to the political payoff scandal, was one of many regional affiliates of Sagawa Kyubin, which is based in Kyoto.