LaHood resigns Lincoln Museum job after loan fine disclosure
April 5, 2021
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FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2013, file photo, then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, after President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, to succeed LaHood. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the Department of Justice disclosed that former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood, in 2019, paid a $40,000 fine for allegedly making misleading statements to federal agents about a loan and failing to disclose it on ethics forms.Jacquelyn Martin/AP
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has resigned as chairman of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, officials announced Monday.