It also helps explain why unlike some other bad boy politicians he was forced to resign.
But he supported it, and has been forced to resign his seat as a social-democratic congressman.
Sokol, once considered a Warren Buffett successor, was forced to resign from Berkshire Hathaway.
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Mr Berlusconi, 76, was forced to resign as prime minister of a centre-right coalition last November.
Paterson became governor last spring after then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.
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Whatever the reason for his resignation, it is a good thing that Freeman was forced to resign.
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Mr Berlusconi was forced to resign last November due to his handling of the country's financial crisis.
Then Mechai was forced to resign and a new board comprised mostly of former government bureaucrats took over.
But he has been forced to resign, and legal practitioners now face open sniping between judiciary and executive.
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Some of these were forced to resign, and in a few cases, the firm themselves settled without admitting guilt.
He was forced to resign in 2011 under the pressure of financial markets during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
On March 18th his reformist minister for railways, Dinesh Trivedi, was forced to resign by a junior coalition ally.
In 2010, the league's then chairman was forced to resign after being accused of tax evasion and money laundering.
Nazir Alli, the company's boss, has been forced to resign as the fall-guy.
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In short, Hank Greenberg, who was forced to resign from AIG, has hit the ground running without missing a beat.
And press reports have speculated that the head of Honeywell Michael Bonsignore will be forced to resign after the announcement.
Mr Mandelson tried to hold on to his job - for a day - but was then forced to resign.
More recently, France's Socialist government was hit by a scandal, as former minister Jerome Cahuzac was forced to resign over tax fraud allegations.
Despite his denials that he had done nothing wrong, he felt forced to resign for the sake of the government.
S. Yeddyurappa, was forced to resign in 2011 when the state's anti-corruption watchdog accused him of corruption related to illegal mining.
Mr Nasheed says he was forced to resign on 7 February by an army "mutiny", a claim denied by Mr Waheed.
Stephenson, in his resignation speech, pointed out that Wallis, unlike Andy Coulson, had not been forced to resign from the paper.
Mr Bossi himself was later forced to resign as head of his party as he was engulfed in a financial scandal.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama depend on veteran Washington insiders, and one of those insiders has just been forced to resign.
This time around the Democratic Party has an embarrassment of its own: the attorney-general was forced to resign after a sex scandal.
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Weigel, infamously, was forced to resign from the Washington Post for showing such virulent bias against conservatives as to shock even the Post.
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An Australian court has rejected a sexual harassment case filed against former Speaker of Parliament Peter Slipper, who had been forced to resign.
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He famously responded, "I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me, " a one-liner he came to regret when Tressel was later forced to resign.
But Mr Habibie's own government has been beset by demonstrations since he took office in May, after his precessor, Suharto, was forced to resign.
When this scandal first broke and Ms Hughes was forced to resign, the home secretary declared it was the worst day of his political life.
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