Sentences with phrase «over a scandal last»

Cho oversaw marketing and commercials at the South Korean flag carrier until her father announced the resignation over the scandal last month.

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The other co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, also left recently — and last month posted the #DeleteFacebook hashtag during the social network's scandal over user privacy.

A day after berating Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan over the bank's own scandal with phony accounts, Senator Warren took aim Wednesday at Smith, who retired as CEO of the credit reporting agency last week in the wake of the Equifax breach.

Wells Fargo already faces many lawsuits over its opening of unauthorized customer accounts, in a scandal that led to last month's departure of the San Francisco - based bank's longtime chief executive, John Stumpf.

Last year's scandal over Mylan's 500 % price hike of the EpiPen, a potentially lifesaving allergy treatment, tarnished Bresch's reputation, but it didn't hurt her business as much as some expected.

Over the last few months, Olympus has been willing to bend its pride and do what was required to survive this scandal.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, sparked last month by news reports that the political - research firm misappropriated millions of users» data, soon morphed into a full - blown panic over data privacy that sent CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Congress.

This would mark the latest headache for the bank, which is still recovering from a 2016 fake accounts scandal and paid a $ 1 billion fine over misconduct in its mortgage lending and auto businesses last week.

The Facebook privacy scandal that brought a ton negative press over the last month (and justly so), has already forced Facebook to change the way they...

For the last three months, the bank has been gripped by a still - growing scandal over revelations that its employees, motivated by poorly structured incentives, opened as many as 2 million bank and credit card accounts for customers without authorization.

The two aides to the embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief left their posts this week, following two congressional hearings last week where Pruitt was questioned over his ethics scandals and deregulatory agenda.

Wells Fargo has run into problems of late following a scandal, revealed last September, in which thousands of its employees opened millions of fake accounts for unwitting customers over a decade and a half, if not longer.

Investors who have poured over $ 10 billion into Uber over the last eight years have stomached scandals and soap operas of every kind, including the noisy ouster of its CEO Travis Kalanick.

Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young company matures over time.

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

No wonder the atheist movement is growing... all of the scandals over let's say just the last 30 years... from all the child molesting that is rampant to mega church ministries and their ministers personal wealth and property... (why don't they live modestly and give all their money to those in need as they preach).

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

Richard Davenport - Hines is a prolific author and Enemies Within must be seen alongside his last book An English Affair which covered the Profumo scandal and in which the author was rightly critical over the exaggerated behaviour of the press and the police.

Considering the fact that the Troopergate scandal, ignited by a scathing report from then - AG Cuomo, sparked the last public debate over the AG's public corruption powers, it's likely a plea to Spitzer's office to further strengthen Cuomo would have falled on deaf ears — to say the least.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, appearing on the same programme, said people would view the potentially # 17 million payout for the former Barclays chief executive, who resigned last Tuesday over the Libor scandal, as «totally outrageous».

David Cameron refused to support Nick Clegg over the Rennard scandal last night, as a second accusation of sexual molestation by a Liberal Democrat emerged.

Last year's number one scandal was Wikileaks, which ruffled diplomatic feathers the world over.

Philip, I sense a serious scandal over [transport secretary] Chris Grayling's decision last week to bail out Stagecoach / Virgin on East Coast.

In recent times, the 700 - year - old chamber has been mired in conflict and embarrassment over an expenses scandal that ended the careers of dozens of lawmakers in the prelude to last year's general election.

Cambridge Analytica was suspended from Facebook last week over the scandal but said in response that it «fully complies with Facebook's terms of service» and was in contact with the platform.

Last week, a senior figure at the directorate admitted he did not have the «faintest idea» how many illegal immigrants remained in Britain, while this weekend, an IND official was suspended over claims of a sex - for - visas scandal.

What the Church does not need is another scandal from the past to emerge and Pope Francis will be acutely conscious of the challenge bequeathed to him from his predecessors - the seemingly interminable tale of abuse and collusion that has come out over the last decade and more.

«Over the last few months, New York City Democratic Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has been under fire to resign over the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito LoOver the last few months, New York City Democratic Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver has been under fire to resign over the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito Loover the sex scandal coverup and taxpayer funded pay - off involving Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

The last two governors also found themselves in ethical trouble - Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal and David Paterson was fined for ethical lapses.

This more than anything reveals that the Labour Party have not learnt anything about what the public vocalised during the expenses scandal and remain tethered to the authoritarian instincts they displayed over the last 13 years.

Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.

And New Yorkers have been begging for reform in the wake of scandal after scandal, many over the last four years of inaction.

A Democratic insider over the weekend noted the history Cuomo and Faso shared: Namely the part the congressman played in the Cuomo's attorney general investigation into the pay - to - play pension fund scandal of the last decade.

Mockridge last year was dispatched to replace Rebekah Brooks, who was forced to resign over News International's hacking and bribery scandal at the company's now - closed News of the World and faces a criminal trial next year.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

Among the issues was a lack of forceful response to the sexual harassment scandals that have engulfed the Democratic conference over the last several years.

Eliot Spitzer conceded to Vanity Fair recently that people will never get over the prostitution scandal that brought him crashing down to the ground last year.

Sheldon Silver was convicted last week on all seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering that he faced over five weeks of trail in Federal District Court in Lower Mnahattan — becoming the latest New York politician convicted in a corruption scandal tied to real estate interests.

Jackson withdrew from consideration to lead the VA last month amid scandal over his workplace behavior.

Good - government groups praised the action and said it sends a message to state government rocked by corruption and ethical scandals over the last four years.

The procedures were used for what My Lyon described as «less serious» breaches of the rules regarding such matters as office stationery, but the public anger over expenses has moved Sir George to prevent any further damage to the standing of MPs, which is already at an all - time low following the scandal last year.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

In response to the barrage of corruption and sexual harassment scandals over the last decade, the Legislature has also dramatically revamped the way it approaches its ethics and sexual harassment training, according to Assemblymember Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Nassau County and former chair of the Assembly's ethics committee.

Meanwhile, the system of public financing for presidential candidates that came into being after the Watergate scandal and that once was universally accepted and respected by those seeking the presidency has been systematically shredded over the course of the last four presidential campaigns.

In a scandal that has engulfed the Conservative party over the last few weeks, Tory chiefs have been seeking to distance themselves from Clarke, who strongly denies all allegations against him.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown compares the Windrush scandal to how the citizens of Hong Kong were treated twenty one years ago when the last British colony was handed over to «a burgeoning post-communist China».

Grimes also sought to distance herself from the President over the Veterans Affairs scandal, calling last month for embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign over the controversy that's rocked his agency and again placed the spotlight of scrutiny on the Obama administration.

Despite recent government chaos over the Windrush scandal, Labour has spent the last few weeks in a defensive posture against a media onslaught that has undoubtedly had an impact.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis is riding high on a last - minute infusion of campaign cash and renewed voter outrage over the pay - to - play scandal swirling around City Hall.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.