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PROBLEM: Co-chairman Bob Weinstein and chief operating officer David Glasser  who has been expected to move into the CEO role as the company confronts a post-Harvey future  told employees in a video conference that they were completely blindsided by the waves of reports documented by the Times and the New Yorker.
Lance Maerov  the board member who handled the contract negotiations  said in an interview with the Times that he had been told of settlements  but said that he had assumed they were used to cover up consensual affairs. Glasser declined to comment to the newspaper  as did  Bob Weinstein . Tarak Ben Ammar and Richard Koenigsberg  the other members of the board  did not respond to messages from the Times.
Ben Ammar told French television on Wednesday night that  Weinstein  had “violated the charter and we fired him within the hour.” The Franco-Tunisian businessman was referring to the company’s code of conduct that employees of TWC sign which covers “verbal  physical  sexual and racist aggression.” He told news channel LCI that he couldn’t speak about the ongoing investigation convened by the board  but said the company has “proof.” He did not elaborate.
He also noted that  Weinstein  re-signed the code of conduct in 2015 after revelations that he had groped Italian model Ambra Battilana Guttierez. An audio recording  captured when Gutierrez worked with New York City police and wore a wire in a subsequent encounter with  Weinstein   proved damning but did not result in any charges as prosecutors declined to move forward with a case  citing insufficient evidence.

SOLUTION: Weinstein Company board reportedly knew about payoffs to women since 2015

PROBLEM: Premier Silvio Berlusconi skipped a hearing Friday in a trial accusing him of bribing a British lawyer to lie on the stand.
 Berlusconi had not been expected at the technical hearing  his lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said  adding that the premier would attend when there were issues of substance at hand  beginning next month.
 Prosecutors accuse Berlusconi of ordering the 1997 payment of $600 000 to lawyer David Mills in exchange for his false testimony in two trials. Both Berlusconi and Mills have denied wrongdoing. Mills is in the second and final round of appeals against his conviction in the case.
 of ordering the 1997 payment of $600 000 to lawyer David Mills in exchange for his false testimony in two trials. Both Berlusconi and MillsBerlusconi and Mills have denied wrongdoing. Mills is in the second and final round of appeals against his conviction in the case.
 On Friday  the three-judge panel rejected a defense motion arguing that Berlusconi's portion of the trial should restart from scratch  without allowing any evidence heard by the previous court to carry over on the grounds it would be prejudicial.
 The case is one of two in Milan courts restarted against the premier after Italy's Constitutional Court overturned a law sparing Berlusconi from prosecution while in office.
 In the other case  Berlusconi and others are accused of overpaying for rights to show U.S. movies on Berlusconi's Mediaset television empire and pocketing the difference.
 Although defendants in Italian trials are not required to be present  Berlusconi has said he wants to defend himself in person against the charges.

SOLUTION: Berlusconi skips hearing in Milan corruption case

PROBLEM: The vote makes Rangel just the 23rd member of the House to be censured  and the first in nearly three decades.
 Rangel and his allies had pleaded for mercy  arguing his transgressions  which included failure to pay income taxes and misuse of his office to solicit fundraising donations  deserved the more lenient punishment of a reprimand. But that effort failed  267-146.
 Still  talking to reporters after leaving the House floor  Rangel's old pugnacity returned as he denounced the vote as partisan.
 "I am confident that when the history of this has been written  people will recognize that the vote for censure was a very  very  very political vote " Rangel said.
 Rep. Zoe Lofgren  D-Calif.  the chairwoman of the ethics committee  said in the past  censure had been used for members who had used unparliamentary language and that Rangel had promised voters that Democrats would run the most ethical Congress in history.
 "We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard " Lofgren said. "Mr. Rangel himself has acknowledged that."
 Rangel's long battle over the ethics charges has transfixed New York City's political establishment  and set off speculation about how long he will remain in office. Several Democrats are eyeing the seat  but no major figure dared to challenge Rangel last fall  when he easily won re-election.
Rangel's long battle over the ethics charges has transfixed New York City's political establishment  and set off speculation about how long he will remain in office. Several Democrats are eyeing the seat  but no major figure dared to challenge Rangel last fall  when he easily won re-election.

SOLUTION:
RANGEL CENSURED DESPITE PLEAS FOR MERCY