Sentences with phrase «resigned after the scandal»

I'm commenting on the Rep. Peter King reporting on Vito Fosella's deployment of the usual excuse when pressured to resign after a scandal: «I'm thinking of my family.»

Expert pens an open letter offering career coaching to the former Culture Secretary Maria Miller who resigned after the scandal over her expenses

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Mr. Sloan, a veteran of the bank, took over as C.E.O. after his predecessor, John Stumpf, resigned after the eruption of a scandal involving Wells Fargo's creation of fake accounts.

Similar story, as far as it goes: New York politician resigns after a sex scandal and tries to make a comeback.

Kalanick resigned as CEO in late July, after a number of scandals blew up around the company, but still sits on Uber's board.

Winterkorn resigned soon after the scandal over polluting vehicles in the United States became public in September 2015.

Uber's founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned after mounting pressure from shareholders over a string of workplace scandals.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest sexual harassment scandal to shake Silicon Valley, the co-founder of a venture capital firm resigned this week after six women accused him of making unwelcome advances ranging from late - night texts to groping.

The scandal has already led to the ouster of former president and CEO Steve Penny, who resigned in March after pressure by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

The ride - hail company has recently seen a parade of executives leave the company — either after being fired or resigning — and has suffered through a series of public scandals, the most recent of which involved an executive obtaining the medical records of a rape victim in India.

O'Brien resigned in scandal last week after allegations that he made sexual advances toward young men studying to be priests.

To caricature evangelicals, it highlights the rise and fall of Ted Haggard, who was forced to resign as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado after he confessed to a sex scandal.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was already out of office when it was discovered that he had a son with a former family housekeeper, but many other politicians have resigned because of their indiscretions, including Weiner, after covering up a sexting scandal.

Lisle Park District Director Roy Cripe resigned Tuesday, nearly three years after taking over the district while it was in the midst of scandal.

But she added that Spitzer will have «explaining» to do for women voters five years after he resigned in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

Mr Fedorcio had gone on extended leave last August after the phone - hacking scandal broke and commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned.

But it is almost certain that the reformatted and renamed program will further elevate Mr. Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned the governorship in 2008 after being ensnared in a prostitution scandal.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is entering the New York City comptroller's race, re-entering the political fray after more than five years on the sidelines following the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign his statewide post.

One week after Rob Porter, his staff secretary, resigned amid spousal abuse allegations, Trump said that he was «totally opposed to domestic violence,» his first condemnation of the alleged conduct behind a scandal that has engulfed the White House.

Other politicians might have been finished by the scandal surrounding Spitzer, the moralizing former state attorney general who resigned as governor in March 2008, after it was revealed he had been hiring prostitutes.

The former lieutenant governor stepped up to the state's top elected post when former Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after being named in a sex scandal.

Spitzer would go on to resign after a prostitution scandal.

PolitiFact has not looked into whether the state has also had an inordinate number of sex scandals, but two high profile cases come to mind: In 2008, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after revelations that he had hired a sex worker, and former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is in prison for sexting a minor.

Even New Hampshire Republican Frank C. Guinta, a vocal Trump supporter whom Granite State Republicans had urged to resign after an FEC scandal last year, held on surprisingly late into the night.

She confirmed media reports that he had sent her a consoling message after she was forced to resign from her job as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone - hacking scandal last year.

Even better for Mr. Spitzer, however, is that a majority of Democrats, 57 percent, say he would be an excellent or good comptroller, and a full two - thirds say Mr. Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after an infamous prostitution scandal in 2008, should be given a second chance.

He took over as chief executive in 2008 after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a sex scandal.

Paterson, elected lieutenant governor in 2006, became New York's first African American governor when Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign the governorship after a prostitution scandal.

What: Resigned from office after a prostitution scandal in 2008.

Spitzer, who earned the nickname «sheriff of Wall Street,» became governor in 2006 but resigned after 14 months amid a prostitution scandal.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed relieved that the saga of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner was coming to ane expected end today after reports that the Brooklyn congressman will resign in the wake of a sexting scandal.

Up to this point, the widely held belief was that the focus of the probe was on the tenure of DiNapoli's predecessor — Hevesi — who resigned in disgrace after pleading guilty to a felony charge of misusing state resources in the so - called Chaffeurgate scandal.

Luxembourg will hold new elections after Prime Minister Jean - Claude Juncker announced he would resign following a secret service scandal.

Crucially, Spitzer - who resigned the governorship in 2008 after a prostitution scandal - is also polling well above 50 %, undercutting the Stringer campaign's argument that Spitzer lacks support from a majority of New Yorkers.

After the string of public corruption scandals that we have brought to light, many may rightly resign themselves to the sad truth that perhaps the most powerful special interest in politics is self - interest.

After Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal, Paterson was sworn in as governor of New York on March 17, 2008.

Philippe Reines, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, pushed back against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) after she said in an interview that former President Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Paterson took office in March 2008 after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal.

For about a week after news of the Spitzer scandal broke nobody knew for sure if he was going to resign.

She did take some heat recently from those close to Bill and Hillary Clinton when she recently said he should have resigned the presidency as a result of the Monica Lewinsky scandal after taking support from the former first couple for years.

Asked during a debate in July whether she would have prosecuted Mr. Spitzer, who resigned two years ago after a prostitution scandal but against whom federal prosecutors ultimately declined to file charges, Ms. Rice was the only candidate to say yes.

But he was also the first to resign the post in more than 300 years, after he lost the confidence of many members over his handling of the MPs» expenses scandal in 2009.

Weiner resigned in June of 2011 in the wake of a Twitter sex scandal after lewd pictures he sent to at least six women surfaced.

Spitzer resigned as governor in disgrace in 2008 after he was caught in a prostitution scandal where he was identified as the black socks - wearing «Client No. 9.»

Paterson, who became governor after Spitzer resigned amid his own scandal in 2008, told The Post, «Records now show that the last four Senate majority leaders, not counting Skelos, have been indicted, that two of the last four Assembly speakers were indicted, and one of the last three governors had to resign.

He resigned from the company in July 2011 after the scandal of phone - hacking was revealed by the Guardian.

Commenting on Mr Madge's replacement, Plaid Cymru assembly member Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: «I and my colleagues have always maintained that Kevin should have done the honourable thing and resigned his position after the council's unlawful pension payments scandal was exposed.

The Times is reporting former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who resigned in late 2006 after pleading guilty to a felony charge of misusing state resources in the so - called Chauffeurgate scandal, is poised to plead guilty to yet another felony corruption charge — this time in connection with AG Andrew Cuomo's pay - to - play pension fund probe.

He then held the same position in Gov. David Paterson's cabinet when the former LG was elevated to replace Spitzer after the former governor resigned following a prostitution scandal.