By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Now that Wayne Rooney and Karim Benzema are scoring goals again for their countries, can we forget, even forgive, allegations that the English and French forwards paid prostitutes for sex?
"He has nothing to reproach himself for," he says.
Benzema's lawyer Sylvain Cormier denies that the Real Madrid player ever had relations with the woman.
