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Jack Evans to resign from Metro board after probe shows he ‘knowingly’ violated rules
Washington,
June 21, 2019
Washington Post |
Jack Evans said Thursday that he will resign from the Metro board next week, after a legal memo became public saying he “knowingly” violated ethics rules to help friends and clients rather than serve the interests of the transit agency. Evans announced his resignation in a letter to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson after 4½ years on the board, including all but one year as chairman. He did not offer an explanation, but the decision came within hours after The Washington Post published a confidential 20-page memo from the outside law firm that investigated Evans for the board’s ethics committee. It also came a day after Evans reversed himself and acknowledged that he had committed an ethics violation and had agreed to step down as board chairman — although not from the board altogether — as a condition of ending the ethics probe. On Thursday, Reps. Gerald E. Connolly and Don Beyer, both Virginia Democrats, echoed calls days earlier from Hogan for Evans’s resignation. |