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imbroglio - | imˈbrōlyō | noun ( pl. -glios) an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation : the Watergate imbroglio. • archaic a confused heap. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: Italian, from imbrogliare ‘confuse’ ; related to embroil .

Thesaurus imbroglio noun the company may not survive another legal imbroglio complicated situation, complication, problem, difficulty, predicament, trouble, confusion, quandary, entanglement, muddle, mess, quagmire, morass, sticky situation; informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, corner, hole, scrape.

Context in which I've recently seen it used:

Some veteran TV executives believe the Leno imbroglio could ultimately cost more 
than $200 million, including the damage inflicted on stations' local newscasts, 
their ad rates and NBC programs, such as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," 
which lost millions of viewers when its time period was changed. They predicted 
that it could take years for NBC to rebuild.