The Year in Political Scandals
A look back at the scandals that rocked 2013.
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Sex, Drugs and Fraud - This year's juiciest stories centered on the Obama administration overstepping its bounds, former Rep. Anthony Weiner up to the same-old-same-old, a fall from grace for two rising stars, and more. — Joyce Jones (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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IRS Targets Tea Party Groups - In May, news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative organizations with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their names seeking tax-exempt status. Obama called the action "outrageous" and several agency officials were forced to step down. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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NSA Is Watching You - The National Security Agency has been under fire at home and abroad, since it was uncovered that the agency has been monitoring phone and online usage in the U.S. and in foreign nations. Some international leaders have demanded apologies and canceled scheduled visits with Obama. (Photo: Allison Shelley/Getty Images)
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Weinergate 2.0 - Apparently having to leave Congress for sexting was not enough punishment for former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner. During his bid to become New York City's mayor, he was busted once again for sending sexually explicit photos, using the name Carlos Danger. (Photo: Richard Drew/AP Photo)
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Bad Company - Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, once a rising star in the Republican Party, abruptly resigned in March after being interviewed by state law enforcement officers about work a consulting firm she owned did for a nonprofit organization under investigation. (Photo: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)
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Fall From Grace - Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, after pleading guilty to the misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds. His wife, Sandi, a former Chicago alderman, received a one-year sentence and a period of supervised release for an additional year. (Photo: Cliff Owen/AP Photo, File)
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Love Child - Former Sen. Pete Domenici disclosed that he fathered a secret child in the 1970s with the 24-year-old daughter of one of his colleagues, former U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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So Busted - Rep. Trey Radel (R-Florida) pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Nov. 20 to a misdemeanor charge of possession of cocaine. The freshman lawmaker was busted on Oct. 29 after his drug dealer flipped on him following his own arrest. Radel will be on supervised probation for one year and has entered rehab. Florida lawmakers are calling for his resignation. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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They Never Learn - Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind celebrated the Jewish holiday Purim last February by dressing in blackface. He hired a professional makeup artist to make him look like a basketball player. Hikind later apologized for the offense, but also said, "It never crossed my mind for a split second that I was doing something wrong." (Photo: facebook/yoni.hikind)
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DU-Why - Gordon Jenkins, mayor of Monticello, New York, was captured on video in a drunken racist, expletive-laden rage against local law enforcement after he was arrested in November after he was arrested for drunken driving. "Don't call me mayor," he says in one of the videos. "Call me n***r, because that's what I am when I'm here in handcuffs." (Photo: CBS2 NY)
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