Diverted
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Watergate. A foiled "third-rate" burglary at the Watergate complex → the subsequent investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered diverted funds and a conspiracy to manipulate the US election that went right up to the President himself.
Source: Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
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