Several weeks ago, a friend referred a client prospect who was embroiled in a headline-making PR imbroglio.
In 2010 Gibson was embroiled in a controversial domestic abuse scandal with his now-estranged girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.
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Hyundai, the largest chaebol, was embroiled in a bitter succession feud between two sons of the patriarch, and management was split into hostile camps.
McGreevey was embroiled in the corruption scandals that forced his resignation.
Meanwhile, over in Sion, the local club was embroiled in a vicious legal dispute that dated to the signing of an Egyptian goalkeeper back in 2008.
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Its institutional securities division, including equities, was embroiled in a management upheaval that has only recently begun to settle down, but not before a wave of defections.
Oxford University Press also was embroiled in a bribery scandal and it too pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over 4.2 million pounds to sub-Saharan learning initiatives.
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Soon after, Voyager itself was embroiled in a scandal, when two of its directors were arrested and charged with securities fraud on another stock (charges against one were dropped).
Last November, it was embroiled in the so-called "ScamVille" controversy, in which critics accused the publishers of allowing in their games misleading advertisements that purported to offer free virtual currency, but subscribed players to services without their knowledge.
Russia's Eugeni Dementiev threw himself across the line to take silver in a photo-finish with Mikhail Botwinov of Austria, whose bronze came four years after he was embroiled in a doping controversy at the Salt Lake City Games.
But for all the celebrating that the Democrats were doing over the weekend, the mood in the party dramatically changed with Monday's news that Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York and a leading progressive voice in the party, was embroiled in a prostitution scandal.
Marcus North was superbly caught by wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin off Bravo and Benn was delighted to claim the scalp of Brad Haddin, with whom he was embroiled in an unseemly row on day two, with one that gripped, caught the shoulder of the bat and was taken at slip.
September's distressed issuers included Beazer Homes USA, which was deeply embroiled in the housing bubble, and Blockbuster, a video-rental firm.
As if it was not hard enough for Mr Amato to assemble this awkward team, he was soon embroiled in further controversy.
Mr Watson too named family reasons for going, but he was also embroiled in the expenses scandal and reportedly complicit in Brownite smear tactics.
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When Crowley made it known beforehand that she regarded those rules as general guidelines rather than canon law, she was immediately embroiled in controversy, with the co-chairman of the Commission On Presidential Debates publicly admonishing her on her contemplated waywardness.
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The Palestinians accused Mr Netanyahu of proposing the short-cut precisely because he wanted to avoid carrying out old commitments, or, indeed, making new ones of his own: his idea, they said, was that once embroiled in talks on things that really matter, the two sides could be relied on never to emerge, at least not with an agreement.
Which didn't prevent members of the press and pundits from proclaiming, all the rest of the week, that Mr. Romney had embarked on a political attack while the world was aflame and the president embroiled in the crisis.
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The bank was also recently fined for being embroiled in a global rate-rigging scandal.
The last big privacy disaster to get Google embroiled in class-action litigation was Buzz.
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Even if the DOE liked the South Texas Project expansion plan, there was no way DOE was going to back a project with partners embroiled in a lawsuit.
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He was once Ireland's richest man, and the bankrupt former billionaire and his family have been embroiled in a high-profile legal battle with the bank, which was bailed out by taxpayers.
But it was to be in June 2008 that saw her embroiled in a major controversy over her beliefs about homosexuality.
Only a few months later, however, while the World Cup was on in England, the two countries became embroiled in an armed clash in the Himalayan heights of Kargil.
Felipe Gonzalez, a former Spanish one, was once much-fancied but now looks over-embroiled in controversies back home.
Dr Lynch, of course, eventually sold Autonomy to America's Hewlett Packard and is now embroiled in a row over just what his company was really worth.
He was put on gardening leave in March 2010 with the Tigers embroiled in another relegation battle and left in June after both sides agreed a compensation deal.
But the president of the PRI, Humberto Moreira, is embroiled in an accounting scandal in Coahuila, where he was governor until January.
Lady Mary was the duke's second wife and after he died she became embroiled in a legal dispute over his will with her step son, the fourth Duke of Sutherland.
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Sen Kerry was Mr Obama's second choice, after UN Ambassador Susan Rice became embroiled in controversy over last September's raid on a US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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