trustee
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Instead, Campbell had been the victim of deception perpetrated by her co-trustee, Bianka Hellmich, who was disqualified from being a charity trustee for nine years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
However, a tribunal said on Thursday, external that the most serious instances of misconduct in the charity "were concealed" from Campbell by a fellow trustee.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Experience: Veres cited his role as trustee and previous work as a teacher as key experience for another four-year term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Former supermodel Naomi Campbell won a legal challenge on Thursday to overturn a five-year ban on being a charity trustee after a panel accepted she had been the victim of deception.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
It was the newest trustee, Lady Constance Ashton, who did something utterly unexpected.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Four candidates are vying for Seat 6 on the board of trustees for the Los Angeles Community College District, where they will oversee some 200,000 students and an annual budget around $10 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Trusts are usually written in very conditional, flexible language to account for all future possible scenarios and last through several generations of trustees and beneficiaries.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The law that created the center, he said, makes no distinction between the powers of different trustees, and it doesn’t permit the board to discriminate between them on powers, including the right to vote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Kinghan said the engines, as well other items and services he had supplied, had been delivered with the understanding that those running the museum were the "right people to be the trustees of the boat".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“What reason could the trustees have for demanding the student files?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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It marked a stark change from April 2016, when the university’s board of trusteed voted to keep the former president’s name on campus buildings and programs.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020
Already the Government has got back from the Chase National Bank with which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The National Association of Manufacturers notes that scandals have centered in labor and jointly controlled welfare funds, insists that trusteed company pension plans should be left alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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According to President Batten & friends this right belongs to N. W. Ayer, the corporation, as owner of 117,000 trusteed shares.
From Time Magazine Archive
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All the trusteed stock was voted in a block in favor of the plan, Trustee Thornley being unable to swing the other three trustees to his side.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I know that I registered a vow that I would never again be trustee of anything without trusteeing it in fact.
From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
She informed the executors that she wished to make over half her property to the old man, trusteeing it so that it should descend to his nephew.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
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