THE 10 Filipino nurses were branded by the Suffolk County district attorney as derelict in their duties, accused of abandoning five chronically ill children, four of whom were on ventilators, and one terminally ill man by quitting their jobs in 2006 in a labor dispute.
THE 10 Filipino nurses were branded by the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney as derelict in their duties, accused of abandoning five chronically ill children, four of whom were on ventilators, and one terminally ill man by quitting their jobs in 2006 in a labor dispute.
Four of the Supreme Court's 25 members are under investigation, three of whom were suspended from their judicial duties this week, accused of links to Mr. Montesinos.
If the bully is a supervisor, victims may be stripped of critical duties, then accused of not doing their job, says Gary Namie, founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute, an advocacy group based in Bellingham, Wash.
In a widely publicised scandal, Stalker was suspended from duty and accused of consorting with criminals.
In his lawsuit against HSBC, Mr. Picard asserted that the bank had breached its common law fiduciary duty and accused it of aiding and abetting Mr. Madoff's fraud because it ignored numerous "red flags" indicating that the Madoff investment operation was a scam.
Msgr. Charles A. Ribaudo, the beloved, avuncular pastor known as Father Bud, had recently retired, citing health problems, but soon parishioners learned that Monsignor Ribaudo had actually been removed from his priestly duties after being accused of sexual abuse.
Some, like Rosie Saldivar of Houston, complained that the bishops who voted to remove from priestly duties a priest accused of even one act of sexual abuse did not adopt a policy to hold themselves and other church leaders accountable for failure to keep abusive priests from coming into contact with more children.
The mounting damage suits have reached beyond this area to the Diocese of Lexington, where Bishop J. Kendrick Williams announced this week that he would take a leave from his duties after being accused in one damage suit of abusing a child while he was a curate in Louisville.
An off-duty police officer accused of driving while intoxicated and fatally striking a motorcyclist was charged yesterday with second-degree vehicular manslaughter, the authorities said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges that test the limits of what can constitute that duty when it accused a broker of trading on and passing information he learned through a relationship formed at Alcoholics Anonymous.
