Charity Suspends Top Officials Over Deal With Internet Contractor
May 21, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The American Bible Society, in New York, has suspended its president and chief financial officer after a news article reported on the organization’s payment to an Internet contractor with ties to online pornography, says The New York Times.
Paul G. Irwin, president, and Richard B. Stewart Jr., chief financial officer, are on paid temporary leave as the organization reviews its now-severed relationship with the Internet contractor, Richard J. Gordon. The charity paid one of Mr. Gordon’s companies more than $5-million for Web site designs, the Times reported in an earlier story.
Mr. Irwin had previously hired Mr. Gordon’s company, Exciting New Technologies, when he was chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, the Times reports. Mr. Irwin tells the newspaper that he did not know Mr. Gordon had ties to the pornography industry.
A spokeswoman for the American Bible Society tells the Times the suspensions did not imply wrongdoing by the two men.
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