8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (9)
#8067750 at 2020-02-08 01:30:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10327: DeepState Salty Over Vindman Edition
>>8067723
https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/scotland-finance-minister-Derek-Mackay-resigns-after-texts-to-cute-16-year-old-boy-reported/
LONDON - Scotland's finance minister has resigned, hours before he was due to deliver his annual budget, after he reportedly sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old boy on social media.
Derek Mackay quit Thursday, saying he had "behaved foolishly."
The Scottish Sun newspaper reported that 42-year-old Mackay sent the teen more than 270 messages on Facebook and Instagram, telling the boy he was "cute" and offering to take him to a rugby match and to dinner. Mackay is not accused of breaking the law.
"Serving in government has been a huge privilege and I am sorry to have let colleagues and supporters down," Mackay said in a statement.
#8067286 at 2020-02-08 00:48:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10326: The Friday Night Massacre Edition
https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/scotland-finance-minister-Derek-Mackay-resigns-after-texts-to-cute-16-year-old-boy-reported/
#8059012 at 2020-02-07 08:07:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10315: Wakey Wakey! Edition
Resignations in the news 2/5/2020 and 2/6/2020 - part 1
Newell resigns from county board
http://www.personcountylife.com/stories/newell-resigns-from-county-board,25648
DeKalb Schools: Teacher arrested at airport on drug charges resigns
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/dekalb-schools-teacher-arrested-airport-drug-charges-resigns/8R8it51GSKyXXWQJXktACN/
Superintendent Chief Learning Officer Rob Leri retiring from Tahoe Truckee Unified School District
https://www.sierrasun.com/news/superintendent-chief-learning-officer-leri-retiring-from-tahoe-truckee-unified-school-district/
Gonzales city secretary to resign
http://www.gonzalesinquirer.com/stories/gonzales-city-secretary-to-resign,27280
Linda Ford Ball, 76, retired from the City of Newport News after 31 years' employment
https://wydaily.com/obits/2020/02/05/linda-ford-ball-76-retired-from-the-city-of-newport-news-after-31-years-employment/
Hamilton County's Engineer Is Retiring
https://www.wvxu.org/post/hamilton-countys-engineer-retiring#stream/0
West Virginia schools superintendent Paine retiring
https://www.wdtv.com/content/news/West-Virginia-schools-superintendent-Paine-retiring-567590541.html
School district silent about resignation of Overlook Middle School Principal Phillip Saisa
https://www.thegardnernews.com/news/20200206/school-district-silent-about-resignation-of-overlook-middle-school-principal-phillip-saisa
Albemarle chairman, CEO stepping down for health reasons
https://www.magnoliabannernews.com/news/2020/feb/06/albemarle-president-ceo-stepping-down-health-reaso/
Faith Lutheran football coach Vernon Fox resigns
https://www.reviewjournal.com/nevada-preps/np-football/faith-lutheran-football-coach-vernon-fox-resigns-1950965/
Scottish minister Derek Mackay resigns over claims he befriended teenage boy online
https://news.sky.com/story/snp-minister-Derek-Mackay-resigns-over-claims-he-befriended-teenage-boy-online-11927382
Bice: Leaders of 2020 DNC Host Committee fired
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2020/02/04/board-fires-two-leaders-2020-dnc-host-committee/4662792002/
Ryan Kiesel, ACLU of Oklahoma Executive Director to step down in June
http://city-sentinel.com/2020/02/ryan-kiesel-aclu-of-oklahoma-executive-director-to-step-down-in-june/
Developer resigns as chair of Dallas housing task force after questions over conflict of interest
https://www.fox4news.com/news/developer-resigns-as-chair-of-dallas-housing-task-force-after-questions-over-conflict-of-interest
Yet Another High-Profile Museum Director in Poland Has Been Fired From Her Post by the Local Right-Wing Government
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/silesian-museum-director-fired-1769376
Marla Shoemaker, head of education at Philadelphia Museum of Art, is stepping down
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-museum-of-art-marla-shoemaker-retires-20200206.html
'I'm going to enjoy life': Hampton Beach marketing director steps down as cancer returns
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200206/im-going-to-enjoy-life-hampton-beach-marketing-director-steps-down-as-cancer-returns
Airport manager resigns
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/airport-manager-resigns/
Oregon Symphony music director to step down after 2020-2021 season
https://www.kgw.com/article/entertainment/music/oregon-symphony-music-director-carlos-kalmar-step-down/283-652fcb6f-e034-4701-8fec-a8ff098ba359
XFD lieutenant retiring after 28 years
https://www.xeniagazette.com/top-stories/46221/xfd-lieutenant-retiring-after-28-years
Credit Suisse CEO Thiam Exits in Shock Reversal After Scandal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-07/credit-suisse-ceo-tidjane-thiam-stepping-down-after-scandal
#8054849 at 2020-02-07 01:37:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10310: Game Over Edition
Another sick man bites the dust.
Scotland finance chief resigns after reports of inappropriate texting relationship with teen boy, 16, emerge
Scotland's Finance Secretary Derek Mackay resigned Thursday, just hours before he was set to deliver the annual budget, following reports that he sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old boy he befriended on social media back in early August.
The 42-year-old finance minister issued a statement announcing the immediate resignation from his post, as well as an apology to the teen to whom he reportedly sent more than 270 messages on Facebook and Instagram as recently as five days ago, The Scottish Sun reported.
"I take full responsibility for my actions. I have behaved foolishly and I am truly sorry," Mackay's statement read. "I apologize unreservedly to the individual involved and his family. I spoke last night to the First Minister and tendered my resignation with immediate effect."
It was announced that Scotland's Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has resigned with immediate effect, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, after allegations emerged that he befriended a teenager on social media and sent hundreds of messages to the 16-year-old boy
According to the report, Mackay first reached out to the teen on Aug. 2 in a private online message sent on Instagram. Over the next six months, the politician engaged in several conversations with the boy, including one exchange where he asked if their "chats" were "between us?"
The messages seen by The Sun appear to show that Mackay was well aware of the boy's age.
On one occasion in September, he invited the 16-year-old to a rugby game, offering to pay for the tickets. Then in December, he again invited him to another rugby function being held in Holyrood. Mackay also tried to enlist the teen's help in handing out leaflets for his campaign.
The teen told the outlet that he stopped answering Mackay after he sent him a message on Dec. 27 calling him "cute." He received two messages since, with the most recent being sent last week.
The boy's mother also spoke to The Sun and said she only recently found out about Mackay's texting relationship with her son.
"A man like that is not supposed to say these sort of things to a boy - he looks like he wants something from my son. When I finally read the messages it was terrifying and made my stomach turn," she said.
Mackay, who has not been accused of breaking the law, was a rising star in the Scottish National Party, which runs Scotland's semi-autonomous Edinburgh-based administration. He had been seen as a potential successor to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP, which advocates independence from the United Kingdom for the nation of 5.5 million.
"Serving in government has been a huge privilege and I am sorry to have let colleagues and supporters down," Mackay said in a statement.
Sturgeon said in a statement that Mackay has also been suspended from the SNP.
"I don't condone in any way, shape of form this kind of behavior," Stugeron said.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/scotland-Derek-Mackay-resignation-inappropriate-relationship-16-boy
#8054171 at 2020-02-07 00:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10309: Nighshift Up In This.... Edition
Scottish finance chief quits after report he messaged 16-year-old boy
Thursday, February 06, 2020, 16:42 GMT+7
LONDON – Scotland's finance chief has resigned after a newspaper report that he had sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old boy.
https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/international/20200206/scottish-finance-chief-quits-after-report-he-messaged-16yearold-boy/52879.html
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/5257694/Derek-Mackay-boy-texts-scandal-msp-nicola-sturgeon/
#8050273 at 2020-02-06 18:19:52 (UTC+1)
Qresearch General #10304: POTUS Strikes Back Edition
SNP engulfed by 'grooming' scandal: Nicola Sturgeon SUSPENDS her heir apparent who quit as finance minister after being caught preying on 'cute' boy, 16, by sending him 270 messages on Facebook and Instagram
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay messaged boy on Facebook and Instagram
Boy's mother called for Nicola Sturgeon to sack him amid calls for police probe
Father-of-two MSP left his wife Jennifer Mackay in 2013 after coming out as gay
He asked boy to dinner and said he was 'really cute' after he delivered leaflets
Teenager lied about brother having accident and blamed mum to avoid meeting
Today Mr Mackay quit post and apologised to the boy and SNP's supporters
But hours later his party leader told Holyrood he was suspended pending probe
Police say Mackay hasn't been accused of a crime - but will 'assess information'
The SNP is in crisis today after Nicola Sturgeon suspended her heir apparent from the party who quit as Finance Secretary in disgrace for bombarding a 16-year-old schoolboy with 'creepy' messages over six months.
Derek Mackay, 42, who was tipped to be the next First Minister of Scotland, contacted the boy out of the blue on Facebook and Instagram last summer, calling him 'really cute' before asking him to keep their exchanges secret.
But he resigned hours before presenting the SNP's Budget at Holyrood in Edinburgh today after the boy's mother published the 270 messages exchanged with her traumatised son and said she would go to the police.
Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament today his conduct 'falls seriously below the standard required of a minister' and revealed he had been suspended from both the party and the SNP parliamentary group at Holyrood 'pending further investigation'.
It is the second major blow to hit the SNP in the past year after former First Minister Alex Salmond resigned from the party 12 months ago to fight charges of sexually assaulting 10 women - and today's controversy involving another senior figure in Nicola Sturgeon's party could badly damage her demands for a second independence referendum after Brexit.
Salmond's trial, which starts on March 9, threatens to reveal more damaging information about the party and plunge Scottish Nationalists into more chaos.
Sturgeon is facing intense pressure from within her Remain-supporting party to secure the right to hold a second vote on breaking up the UK, as the latest poll shows 51 per cent of Scots would support leaving the union - the first time a majority has been recorded in favour since 2015.
But Boris Johnson is flatly refusing the demand raising the prospect of a potential legal battle between the SNP and the government.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7971903/Scottish-finance-secretary-Derek-Mackay-Minister-texted-16-year-old-boy.html
#8050149 at 2020-02-06 18:11:41 (UTC+1)
Qresearch General #10304: POTUS Strikes Back Edition
Anti-Brexit Scottish Govt Finance Boss Bombarded Schoolboy with Creepy Texts
The Scottish Government's finance minister, Derek Mackay, has resigned just hours before he was due to deliver the Scottish budget, after he was exposed for sending a deluge of messages to a schoolboy he found online.
Mackay, Member of the Scottish Parliament - roughly equivalent to a state legislature in the United States - for Renfrewshire North & West and, until today, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy, and Fair Work in Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon's devolved executive, bombarded the Glasgow schoolboy, 16, with messages on Instagram and Facebook after contacting him out of the blue.
Mackay persuaded the boy to give him his phone number and repeatedly fished for an invite to a rugby game, offered to pay to bring the boy to the Scottish Parliament for a Scottish Rugby Union event, and tried to get him out to deliver election leaflets with him.
The boy, who has a girlfriend and told Mackay, who left his wife and came out as homosexual in 2013, not to "try anything", broke off contact with the SNP heavyweight after he wrote to him asking if "our chats are between us?" and said he was "really cute".
"Just as long as you know , but you can delete that message lol" the anti-Brexit politician added.
The Scottish edition of The Sun acquired a full transcript of the exchanges and has posted them online.
"[Mackay] first contacted me on Instagram. I had a look to see who he was and I noticed he was quite high profile so I was interested to see what he wanted," the schoolboy explained to newspaper.
"I asked him if he was a politician and he said he was. He then connected with me on Facebook and started messaging me on there.
"He was sending me 'waves' to try to get my attention but at first I just ignored him.
"He was quite persistent and then when he asked me if I liked Scottish rugby, I said yes.
"I was just being polite because I don't like just ignoring people.
"There was nothing bad about it. It seemed like he wasn't looking for anything and just wanted a chat.
"He was asking about the rules of rugby and I told him it would be easier to explain it at a game, but I didn't mean anything by it.
"He asked me if it was an invite but it clearly wasn't.
"He then asked me if I would like to go to a game and asked for my mobile number. I gave him it because he was a politician and high profile and I thought, 'Would that be bad? I wouldn't mind it'."
The schoolboy later became more worried about the politician's interest in him, however, inventing a serious of elaborate excuses to avoid meeting up with him.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/06/scottish-govt-finance-boss-bombarded-schoolboy-creepy-texts/
#8048145 at 2020-02-06 14:55:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10302: The Hunt Is On Edition
>>8048132
>Derek-Mackay
#8048132 at 2020-02-06 14:52:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10302: The Hunt Is On Edition
UK getting cleaned up now?
Scotland finance chief resigns after reports of inappropriate texting relationship with teen boy, 16, emerge
https://www.foxnews.com/world/scotland-Derek-Mackay-resignation-inappropriate-relationship-16-boy
8chan/8kun QResearch SCOTLAND Posts (2)
#16256851 at 2022-05-11 22:52:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research Scotland #5: Humanity Rising Edition
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8851449/john-swinney-cabinet-minister-agreed-ferries-contract/
FERRY FIASCO John Swinney revealed as cabinet minister who agreed to doomed ?97m ferries contract
Rachel Watson
19:57, 11 May 2022
DEPUTY First Minister John Swinney has been revealed as the cabinet minister who gave the final nod to a doomed ?97 million ferries contract against expert advice.
The SNP chief agreed to the deal after then Transport Minister Derek Mackay backed it in 2015, new documents show.
Ministers faced further questions over the saga - which has now cost taxpayers at least ?250m - after they suggested the release of "missing" paperwork had drawn a line under the matter.
Opposition parties claimed the emails apparently found by the government did not answer questions from public auditors about why the deal was handed to Ferguson shipyard against the advice of the taxpayer-owned ferries body, Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited.
Ministers approved the deal with Ferguson Marine for two new ferries to be delivered in 2017. However, neither vessel is finished and the price has continued to soar.
A report by Auditor General Stephen Boyle said there was "no documented evidence to confirm why Scottish ministers were willing to accept the risks of awarding the contract to FMEL, despite CMAL's concerns".
But, yesterday during a debate at Holyrood Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth brandished papers claiming the "missing" documents had been found.
She said an email chain had been discovered because it had been "retained by someone" in government "by chance".
Ms Gilruth claimed the documents contained "irrefutable documentary evidence" that Mr Mackay had signed off the contract.
However, the newly published emails show it was Mr Swinney, then Finance Secretary, who officials went to after Mr Mackay backed the deal.
In the exchanges in October 2015, it states a call was due to take place with Mr Swinney and in the "absence of banana skins" the contract would go-ahead.
Follow up emails said: "Just finished by call with DFM. He now understands the background and that Mr Mackay has cleared the proposal. So the way is clear to award."
A statement from the government said Mr Swinney was "briefed" about Mr Mackay's decision.
Scottish Labour transport spokesman Neil Bibby, accused the SNP of being in a "quagmire of spin and cover up".
He said: "It is a disgrace that this document was not given to Audit Scotland originally. It begs the question what other information has been kept from them and the public.
"We still don't have a shred of information about why this decision was made, and now these documents show that it was cleared by John Swinney."
Ms Gilruth said the email was discovered at noon yesterday adding: "This email destroys the opposition's ridiculous conspiracy theories that another minister made this decision and it destroys their unfolded speculation that there was a ministerial direction."
Scottish Tory transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: "The missing document we and the Scottish public are seeking is one that tells us why the SNP awarded it to Ferguson, given they were expressly advised not to."
Scottish Lib Dem economy spokesman Willie Rennie said a public inquiry is "now urgent".
He added: "It's difficult to believe that the SNP happened to find this apparently critical document just before the debate on ferries. The document makes matters worse as it still doesn't explain why the decision was made to ignore CMAL."
Sources last night claimed Mr Mackay's emails show that the contract was signed off because he was happy with the mitigations put in place - which were previously seen by Audit Scotland.
The spending watchdog Audit Scotland said: "The email confirms that ministers approved the award of the FMEL contract.
"But htere remains insufficient documentary evidence to explain wht the decision was made to proceed with the contract, given the significant risks and concerns raised by CMAL."
#15547259 at 2022-02-04 23:18:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research Scotland #5: Humanity Rising Edition
>>15547254
part 2…….
Environment campaigner Jamie McIntyre said: "There are lots of ways that the Scottish Government could have invested in rewilding and community forestry projects, so it is odd they have chosen to do it this way.
"They claim they want to encourage others to invest in forestry through the Gresham House deal but this is not for ordinary people - it is for very wealthy people.
"There are issues with public money being invested in a sector already supported by public grants, generous tax arrangements and the murky world of carbon offsets - the environmental credentials of which are highly debatable."
Townsend was on the board of Rea Brothers (Isle of Man) Ltd and Companies House records show he is also a director of Hansa Capital, which is based in Guernsey.
A spokeswoman for Gresham House insisted the banker was no longer a director of Rea Brothers and confirmed Gresham's offshore subsidiary.
She said: "Regarding Anthony Townsend's Isle of Man connection, this is historical and relates to a period dating back to the 1970s when Mr Townsend served on the board of Rea Brothers Group and was a non-executive director of various of their companies including Rea Brothers (Isle of Man) Ltd until the sale of the whole group to Close Brothers Plc in 1999."
She added: "Gresham House Investment Management (Guernsey) Limited ("GHIM") is a wholly owned subsidiary.
"A range of investors including local authority and corporate pension schemes and private clients invest in Gresham House forestry funds."
The SNIB was formally launched in November 2020.
Chairman Willie Watt said: "Our investment assessment and approval process is in line with peers, both commercial investors and other development banks.
"In relation to Gresham, the bank invested alongside two public sector pension funds, whose underlying members share our commitment to a low-carbon future. Together, we represent the majority of the funds."
Last year Watt claimed the ?2billion of public cash promised to the SNIB over 10 years was "insufficient".
He said he wanted to be able to earn the right to "borrow on our own balance sheet".
The Sunday Mail revealed in February 2020 how shamed former finance minister Derek Mackay allowed Watt to be appointed without the oversight of ethics watchdogs.
He approved an "unregulated" selection process despite the firm Watt previously led being fined ?8.6million in the UK and America over a conflict of interests scandal.
Meanwhile, Benny Higgins - the Government's chief adviser to help set up the taxpayer-funded bank - was eviscerated in 2015 for spending ?18,000 on taxis in eight months while CEO of Tesco Bank at a time the supermarket was firing frontline staff.
Scotland's public appointment ombudsman had to stand aside from overseeing Watt's appointment after Mackay - who was forced to resign after sending hundreds of inappropriate texts to a schoolboy - let Higgins head an unregulated interview panel.
MSPs passed legislation to set up the SNIB in January 2020 and ministers have committed to putting ?2billion of public funding into it over the next decade.
The Scottish Government said: "The bank makes independent investment decisions and its pay framework and levels of pay of the bank are in agreement with public sector pay policy.
"Some grades and roles are adapted to enable the bank to recruit effectively within a highly paid sector."
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