Saying her nominee for general counsel is “facing a smear campaign,” Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan held a news conference Wednesday to rally support for Randy DeFoor’s appointment.
briefly chancellor of the exchequer in the summer of last year. and it s the chancellor who s ultimately responsible for tax. but some of his conservative colleagues say there shouldn t be a rush to judgment. the prime minister isn tjumping to sack someone based on a couple of news reports over the weekend. he s asked his independent ethics adviser to carry out a probe. and i think that s the right thing to do, get the evidence together and then take a judgment on whether the position is or is not tenable. nadhim zahawi says he s confident he acted properly, but few mps are openly defending him and questions remain over exactly why he had to pay a multi million pound tax bill. iain watson, bbc news. let s get more now from our chief political correspondent, nick eardley, whojoins us from westminster. good morning, nick. the ethics inquiry might take awhile to report back, but how are you assessing mr zahawi s chances of survival at the
unfortunately. what is the nature of that? did you lie on a federal form? did you otherwise indicate when you were signing a form you were swearing under the penalty of perjury. that has to be investigated. the next step you talk about a congressional inquiry, an ethics inquiry. they ll investigate and make a determination as to the lies he told and what lies he made on forms. the answer to that, if he did, there is trouble here. if that didn t happen he has to explain to voters why he made up things concerning his education, employment, his philanthropy, his employees who died at the pulse nightclub. it could be a bigger story. don t candidates have to sign the forms? they do. that has to be produced. did he sign the form? show me the form. evaluate where he signed when he signed, the nature of how he signed, and then we re talking about the legal realm trouble and criminality.