{"id":8928,"date":"2013-06-18T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2013-06-19T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:11:48","slug":"montreal-mayor-michael-applebaum-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/06\/18\/montreal-mayor-michael-applebaum-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8936\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/06\/michaelapplebaum_375b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8936\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8936\" alt=\"Montreal interim mayor Michael Applebaum, photographed in 2009. Photo: abdallahh, Creative Commonns, some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/06\/michaelapplebaum_375b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/06\/michaelapplebaum_375b.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/06\/michaelapplebaum_375b-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/06\/michaelapplebaum_375b-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montreal interim mayor Michael Applebaum, photographed in 2009. Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22168167@N00\/4285756633\/\">abdallahh<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum resigned today. He was arrested yesterday on 14 charges including fraud, breach of trust, conspiracy, and municipal corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference this afternoon, Applebaum told reporters that he\u2019s innocent and \u201cI have never taken a penny from anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the CBC\u2019s video of that press conference\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2013\/06\/18\/montreal-mayor-michael-applebaum-arrested-charged-fraud.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CBC also reports that \u201cthe province and the majority of municipal councillors have said the city should select an interim mayor to serve until the next municipal election in November, rather than placing the city under trusteeship or advancing the date of the municipal election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Applebaum have to do with 2 real estate transactions that took place between 2006 and 2011 when Applebaum was borough mayor of C\u00f4te-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce.<\/p>\n<p>Two other former borough officials were arrested yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum resigned today. He was arrested yesterday on 14 charges including fraud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}