Pressure Grows on Wolfowitz to Resign

[achilles]

Pressure grows on Wolfowitz to resign
By Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan in Washington

Published: April 12 2007 19:03 | Last updated: April 13 2007 04:37

Paul Wolfowitz was under pressure to resign as president of the World Bank on Thursday after admitting he was personally involved in securing a large pay rise and promotion for a Bank official with whom he was romantically involved.

The Bank president issued a public apology, saying: “I made a mistake for which I am sorry”.

The apology came after the Financial Times revealed that Mr Wolfowitz ordered the World Bank’s head of human resources to offer Shaha Riza the pay rise and promotion as part of a secondment package.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ee84cc80-e91e-11db-a162-000b5df10621.html

[fargo]

For a man on an anti-corruption drive at the world bank this is at best a total lack of judgement and at worst hypocrisy.

[achilles]

For a man on an anti-corruption drive at the world bank this is at best a total lack of judgement and at worst hypocrisy.

The least he can do is resign.

[ElHombre]

Another scandal? :lol: It's getting hard to keep track.

[Dakota435]

Another scandal? :lol: It's getting hard to keep track.

He should resign and probably will, being a conservative and still having some sense of shame. Now if he was a Dem and had, say, 90,000$ in bribe money found in his freezer by the FBI, he'd just brazen his way through and end up being appointed to the House Intelligence Committee!!

If ya wanna be corrupt and get away with it, ya gotta be a Dem.