Parliamentary Drugs Controversy
In October 2006, reporters from Le Iene covertly tested deputies of Italy's lower house of parliament for drugs, by claiming to be performing TV interviews about the budget, when in fact the "make-up artist" preparing the deputies for the camera was actually swabbing their faces for samples to be tested for drugs.
Of the 50 samples from deputies, almost one third tested positive for drug use in the previous 36 hours; 12 for cannabis and 4 for cocaine.
When deputies discovered the ruse, they lobbied, on privacy grounds, for broadcast of the pertinent episode of the show to be blocked, which it was.
In September 2009, reporter from Le Iene joked about the homosexuality of George Clooney at the press conference in Venice Film Festival; CNN Broadcasted the news as "a man strips for George Clooney" unaware of the identity of the fake gay man
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