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Putnam County tells Rogers Ailes to keep his money and take his name off Seniors center
Disgraced Fox News boss Roger Ailes can’t buy love from his Hudson Valley hamlet.
The embattled exec has walked away from funding a senior center near his lavish estate in upstate Garrison after neighbors blasted a plan to put his name on the building.
Hundreds of residents signed a petition rejecting the terms of his planned $500,000 donation — causing local officials to table the deal and leading the accused sexual harasser and his wife, Elizabeth, to withdraw the offer.
“His money is an insult to all women in our county,” Garrison resident Lithgow Osborne, 57, told the Daily News on Thursday...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/roger-ailes-withdraws-500g-donation-taxpayers-petition-article-1.2738868
The embattled exec has walked away from funding a senior center near his lavish estate in upstate Garrison after neighbors blasted a plan to put his name on the building.
Hundreds of residents signed a petition rejecting the terms of his planned $500,000 donation — causing local officials to table the deal and leading the accused sexual harasser and his wife, Elizabeth, to withdraw the offer.
“His money is an insult to all women in our county,” Garrison resident Lithgow Osborne, 57, told the Daily News on Thursday...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/roger-ailes-withdraws-500g-donation-taxpayers-petition-article-1.2738868
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