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trustee

[truh-stee] / trʌˈsti /


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David Panzirer, a trustee of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, resigned in protest as a board observer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

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

Student success: Cabrera would take steps to ensure student services are more readily available and the public has better visibility and say in trustee decisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Maggie had taken a job in Philadelphia as medium-in-residence at the “Spiritual Mansion” of Henry Seybert, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

An investigation by the university’s board of trustees cleared Kotlikoff of wrongdoing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Experience: Pearlman says she served on the board of trustees from 2001 to 2017 and taught part-time at all nine colleges before and after her time on the board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The most important step Rapp asks clients to take is to make sure that the trustees understand their roles and the parameters of the trust, and that the beneficiaries also know the terms.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

“If this library is to be a true public institution,” said Charles’s mother, “then it requires public oversight. It should be governed by a board of community trustees, not by a one-man band.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

Only other individual owner of trusteed stock is George H. Thornley, who has 39,000 shares.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two-thirds of the common stock has been trusteed to Robert De Forest, Haven Emereon, and myself to be used for philanthropic purposes when dividends are available, which is not yet the case.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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