World Bank To Conclude Wolfowitz Broke Ethical Boundary, Senior Officials Say

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Wolfowitz Panel Finds Ethics Breach, Officials Say
World Bank Board Could Act on Monday

By Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 28, 2007; Page A01

NEW YORK, April 27 -- A World Bank committee investigating president Paul D. Wolfowitz has nearly completed a report that it plans to give the institution's governing board, concluding that he breached ethics rules when he engineered a pay raise for his girlfriend, three senior bank officials said Friday.

Friday evening, the committee was debating whether to explicitly recommend that Wolfowitz resign, according to the sources, who spoke on condition they not be named, citing an ongoing probe into leaks.

Wolfowitz is scheduled to appear before the committee with his attorney on Monday morning and mount his defense, and the bank's 24-member board of directors will convene that afternoon to discuss the report. The sources suggested that a vote by the board could come that day.

Through his attorney, Wolfowitz vowed to continue the fight to keep his job. "He will not resign under this cloud," said his attorney, Robert S. Bennett, when told of the imminent completion of the committee's report. "He's not going to give in to these coercive tactics."


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[CJCRANE]

1. I'll say it again...

time to go, combsucker.

[DeepBlueC]

2. coercive tactics...??? wtf

[cssmall]

3. Well, no shit, Worldbank.

Disband now. Stop venture and neo-capitalism. No more speculating on humans as if they are land.

[malaise]

4. There was a time when just the mere hint of

impropriety would be followed by a resignation. These fuggers are corrupt and arrogant. Adios Wolfowitz! Never has an administration so closely resembled Rome.