11.   Last night police arrested two former Nomura executives and a current employee as part of a widening scandal involving payoffs to racketeers.

12.   Prominent politicians and businessmen caught up in the widening scandal have also accused the magistrates of waging a political vendetta.

13.   Spagnolia is the first priest to criticize Law publicly for his handling of the widening scandal over pedophile priests in Boston.

14.   Still, an undercurrent of morality runs through the response to the widening scandal.

15.   That allows many Vatican officials to view the widening scandal as a witch hunt and to blame it on the American news media and greedy liability lawyers.

16.   The announcement comes in the midst of a widening scandal over pedophile priests in the Boston archdiocese.

17.   The moves were prompted by concern over a widening scandal involving the sexual abuse of minors by priests.

18.   The request by a member of the Senate Armed Services Commission for Gen. Enrique Cervantes Aguirre to appear comes on the heels of a widening political scandal.

19.   The widening scandal led prosecutors to raid Daiwa Securities Co. yesterday and to arrest five Yamaichi Securities Co. executives on Wednesday.

20.   The widening church scandal is also a widening circle of abuse that will continue its terrible echoes for lifetimes.