Montreal’s mayor resigns
Posted Jun 18, 2013 03:47:20 PM.
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MONTREAL – Montreal has its second mayoral resignation in less than a year.
Interim mayor Michael Applebaum has stepped down a day after he was slapped with a series of criminal charges.
He made the announcement in a brief statement at city hall. He did not take questions.
Applebaum says he’s innocent of the charges against him and will work to prove his innocence.
In a message to people of the city, Applebaum says he loves them and promises that he has “never taken a penny from anybody.”
The provincial government had explicitly urged him to resign yesterday, after he was arrested and subjected to 14 criminal charges.
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