People close to Mr. Silver say he is likely to demote about five people for their roles in the coup attempt -- and for their public statements about him at the time.
He got a Harvard MBA, worked his way up the ladder on Wall Street, was demoted, learned about computers, got canned, cashed a $10 million severance check, started his own business and became one of the richest people in the world.
He was referring to a 2006 case involving a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who was demoted for complaining about how his department handled a questionable police search warrant.
He said he was later demoted for raising questions about how the incident was handled, a charge the State Department denied.
A fourth Phoenix police officer was demoted to sergeant for knowing about the incident and not reporting it.
Former HUD official Helen Foster filed a complaint with department's special counsel late last year, in which she claimed she had been demoted because she raised concerns about the purchases.
The testimony by Mr. Adkins — who was demoted for failing to alert commanders about Private Manning's warning signs, and is now retired — was the highlight of the second day of the defense case in the trial's sentencing phase.
Mr. Washington has said publicly that he believes he was originally demoted after a bank, the FleetBoston Financial Corporation, complained about his columns on its fee structure.
There was nothing about the big hotel, recently demoted to a barracks and a prison, that could give concrete shape to the inmates' loss of freedom — no iron bars or high walls.
Some players get demoted to the bench and sit there pouting about it.
The 6-2 decloses closes a gap in the law that prompted some judges to deny legal protection to municipal workers who were demoted because of their supervisor's false perceptions about their political leanings.
