troopergate

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Proper noun

1. A 1994 controversy around allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor {{w|Bill Clinton}}.
2. A 2007 controversy involving New York governor {{w|Eliot Spitzer}}, who allegedly ordered the state police to create special records of senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno's whereabouts when he traveled with police escorts in New York City.
3. A 2008 controversy around allegations that Alaska governor and presidential nominee {{w|Sarah Palin}} fired the state's public safety commissioner for not cooperating with her demand that he dismiss her former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

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