Sentences with phrase «who resigned»

But not everyone is buying Odell's version of this story, particularly not former tourism director, Valerie Hickman, who resigned back in February, but made it quite clear at the time that she was doing so under duress.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

Former Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who resigned after wearing a wire for federal prosecutors for close to his entire tenure in office, is thinking about running for his old seat.

Lawmakers wrapped up two days of public interviews on Wednesday, but it's not clear when they will select the next attorney general to replace the scandal - scarred Eric Schneiderman, who resigned last week.

Also getting front bench jobs were former Coronation Street actress - turned Labour MP Tracy Brabin and former shadow minister for young people Gloria De Piero, who resigned last year in protest at Corbyn's leadership.

Charles Fuschillo, who resigned late last year to lead the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.

Mr Denham, who resigned over the Iraq war, issued a personal plea to Lib Dems to rebel against the policy.

He told the Commons» home affairs committee that he had an «effective veto» over the choice of who would replace Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned from the job at the height of the phone - hacking scandal.

Joe Bruno, who resigned in 2008 and spent close to 10 years in an ultimately successful battle against federal corruption charges, was the last upstate majority leader.

Among those who resigned but are now coming back in junior shadow roles are Jack Dromey, Roberta Blackman - Woods, Kevin Brennan, Jenny Chapman, Matthew Pennycook, Nick Thomas - Symonds and Emma Lewell - Buck.

Nick Herbert, the ex-policing minister who resigned after he was not offered a place in the Cabinet, had reportedly cleared his desk at the Home Office before the reshuffle began.

The meeting signaled a return to some semblance of normalcy following the arrest last week of Dean Skelos, who resigned as GOP conference and majority leader on Monday.

The New York State Assembly is set to interview potential replacements Tuesday for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned May 8 in a domestic violence scandal.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who resigned from the post earlier today, visited in June 2010 and August 2010.

The total is made up of 4,651 who allowed their membership to lapse, 781 who resigned and 52 who died.

The former chief executive of Barclays, who resigned yesterday morning amid rising political and public anger about the Libor scandal, is expected to offer a robust defence of his conduct when he faces MPs from 14:00 BST.

The New York State Assembly is set to interview potential replacements Tuesday for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned May 8th in a domestic violence scandal.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of violence against women by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned just hours after accounts of abuse by four women.

Stewart Jackson, the Conservative MP for Peterborough who resigned as a PPS to Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson over the EU referendum vote.

The former defence secretary, who resigned in disgrace after he allowed friend Adam Werritty to take part in ministerial meetings, said he was establishing his own projects but was still holding out for an eventual return.

Solicitor General Barbara Underwood became acting attorney general on Tuesday, taking over for the disgraced Eric Schneiderman, who resigned after a New Yorker article detailed four women who accused him of numerous instances of physical violence.

Reed said it would be inappropriate to say publicly who they are considering to replace former US Attorney Bill Hochul, the husband of LG Kathy Hochul, who resigned recently to take a job in the private sector.

Meanwhile, leaders of PDP in the North - East will meet in Gombe tomorrow to endorse a new national chairmanship candidate to replace the former National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, from Bauchi State, who resigned following the defeat of PDP at the presidential election.

New York State Reform Party Chairman Curtis Sliwa told the Brooklyn Eagle that he'll give Bharara his party's nomination if the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District wants to replace Eric Schneiderman, who resigned the attorney general position in disgrace on Monday after four women alleged he had assaulted them.

«The former head of HM Revenue and Customs, who resigned over the loss of data discs containing the personal details of 25 million people, has returned to work in Whitehall on a # 200,000 salary.

Mr Watson, who resigned as minister for digital engagement at the reshuffle, backs a call by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, for a ban on anonymous briefings to lobby journalists, and calls for internet bloggers to be given the same access to Westminster as the lobby.

(CNN)-- Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned in 2011 amid scandal over a lewd photo sent via Twitter, confirmed in an interview published Wednesday that he's considering a political comeback, with a New York City mayoral bid on his radar.

When Cuomo was attorney general, he upstaged and undercut governors Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in scandal, and David Paterson, who aborted his 2010 re-election bid (also amid scandal).

The race in New York's 26th Congressional district was to fill the seat of former Republican Congressman Chris Lee, who resigned over pictures and e-mails of him trying to find a date on Craigslist.

«I don't want to belabor this one incident, because stuff happens, but I do think — as someone who has had his own share of tension with local media about, ahem, different subjects — I may have something to add to the conversation,» said Weiner, a failed Democratic mayoral candidate who resigned from Congress in June 2011 after lying about sending lewd photos and messages to multiple women.

Todd Courser, who resigned in September, and ex-Rep.

Coincidentally, a group of ex-Labour Party members (who resigned due to similar shenanigans over Parliamentary and Council selections in Stoke) are due to meet tonight and when we discuss this victory for Lutfur will no doubt feel that their stand has been vindicated.

81 per cent said that official was to blame, and 77 pointed the finger at Paul Gray, the chairman of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, who resigned last week.

Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008 after revelations he spent thousands of dollars on prostitutes, jumped into the race for New York City comptroller just over a week ago.

Ian Murray - who resigned as Shadow Scottish Secretary yesterday - hit out as the embattled Labour leader was repeatedly condemned at an angry meeting of his MPs.

But the same survey shows more than half of Republican voters in the South Florida House district remain undecided with about one month to go before the special primary to replace Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, who resigned his seat effective Sept. 26 to run in Senate District 40.

«I'm not interested in doing the labels,» says Katko, 51, of Camillus, who resigned as an assistant U.S. attorney to make his first bid for public office.

He took office one week later to fill the seat left vacant by Rep. Michael Grimm, who resigned several months earlier after pleading guilty to tax evasion.

Stewart Jackson, who resigned as a ministerial aide to the Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson last October after rebelling against the government on whether to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, said: «An increasing number of people are very frustrated at the compromises that are necessary with coalition.»

Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 while in the middle of a prostitution scandal, spoke with the New York Times about his plans.

Bonomo, who resigned in June as chairman of the New York Racing Association, said he regularly kept in touch with the Long Island senator after the two met in 1980.

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.

The new subsidies include $ 16.5 million from a criticized $ 400 million fund created by former State Sen. Minority Leader Dean Skelos, who resigned from his post after he was arrested for a bribery and kickback scheme, Politico reported.

If Spitzer runs for city comptroller, he will be the second New York politician who resigned in disgrace to seek redemption this year.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

Those complaints have, of course, taken down two of the state's most powerful politicians: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who both resigned their leadership positions after coming under fire.

As soon as Gov. Rick Scott called a special election to replace scandal - plagued Sen. Frank Artiles, who resigned in April, Diaz was hitting the streets.

Donovan is facing off against his predecessor, former Rep. Michael Grimm, who resigned in 2015 and then served federal prison time for tax evasion.

But a single mention of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, who resigned during the phone hacking scandal and has subsequently returned to Rupert Murdoch's organisation to be chief executive of News UK, did stimulate a very interesting response.

Diaz, who resigned his state House seat to run for the Senate and is known almost universally as «Pepi,» spent much of Saturday outside an early voting site in Southwest Miami with Cuban - born retired Major League Baseball pitcher Camilo Pascual.