While he did not speak for himself, King's attorneys deny everything the ethics committee had found in its investigation, including that King harassed and discriminated against a female staffer, misappropriated council money and that he refused to comply with the punishment the council gave him last year for an ethics violation. King defended himself outside of his Bronx office last week, standing alongside his attorneys and a group of supporters. The watchdog panel last week called for the councilman's expulsion. The new vote came less than a week after the 58-year-old politician was disciplined for the third time by the city council's ethics committee over claims King harassed his staff with improper and abusive comments. I just want to continue to serve the residents of the 12th district." "Why am I being attacked like this?" he said.
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King maintains that he's the one who has been the victim of discrimination, by the rest of the council.Ĭyclist run down by driver fleeing NYC police chase "Any motion to expel should be coupled with a conviction," King said. He said that a member should only be voted out if they are convicted of a crime. and my community," King said at Monday's council meeting, where he again denied the accusations. "The minute anything is said my name is dragged through the mud. More accusations of wrongdoing had been leveled against the Bronx councilman since that time, adding to the multitude of complaints against King over the years. Last year, he was suspended for 30 days and fined $15,000, which the ethics committee saying he never paid. The city council had previously voted to expel King back in October 2019 but it failed to pass. Several others on the council expressed frustration that King has shown no remorse for his alleged actions. "Andy King should have been expelled from the City Council a long time ago," Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who proposed expelling King in 2019, said at the council vote. The council voted 48-2 in favor of expelling the Bronx councilmember, a two-thirds majority was required. The vote to remove King was the first such vote to expel a councilmember in the council's 8-decade history. I thank you for respecting that.The New York City Council voted Monday to expel councilman Andy King over years of harassment allegations against him. In this moment, we need a little time and privacy to heal.
My family and I thank you for your outpouring of kind sentiments and well wishes. "Losing them feels so out of order," King added in his post Saturday. "No parent should have to bury a child. Larry and Chaia co-wrote a book in 1997 called "Daddy Day, Daughter Day." The two opened up in the illustrated children's book about King's second split from Akins and offered ideas about how spending quality time together can help heal the pain of a family going through divorce. I thank you for respecting that.Ī post shared by Larry King on at 5:50pm PDT Andy passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 28th, and Chaia passed on August 20th, only a short time after having been diagnosed with lung cancer. Both of them were good and kind souls and they will be greatly missed.
It is with sadness and a father's broken heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of my children, Andy King, and Chaia King. King also shares son Larry Jr., 58, with Annette Kaye and sons Chance, 21, and Cannon, 20, with actress Shawn King, with whom he filed for divorce last year after 22 years of marriage.
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King adopted Akins' son Andy after the couple married in 1961 (the TV host has been married eight times to seven women). The two later split and remarried, after which they welcomed Chaia. "It is with sadness and a father's broken heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of my children, Andy King, and Chaia King," he wrote. "Both of them were good and kind souls and they will be greatly missed."Īndy and Chaia were two of King's five children, both with former Playboy bunny Alene Akins, who died in 2017. Andy, 65, died "unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 28" and Chaia, 51, "passed on August 20, only a short time after having been diagnosed with lung cancer." The veteran television host, 86, shared the news of both deaths simultaneously in an announcement Saturday night. Larry King is mourning the death of two of his children, Andy and Chaia King, who died within weeks of each other.
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