Bob Diamond latest CEO to resign amid scandal

On July 3, Barclays CEO Bob Diamond stepped down amid a price-fixing scandal. But he is not the only chief executive who has been involved with a scandal that forced him or her to resign. Here’s a look at some other business leaders who have quit amid scandals of various forms.

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In this 2010 file photo, then PayPal president Scott Thompson speaks at the company's international headquarters in Singapore. Thompson, named CEO of Yahoo in January, stepped down May 13 amid controversy over mentions on his résumé and in regulatory filings of a computer science degree he never received.

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Barclays President Bob Diamond waits to pose for photographs after being named as the company's next chief executive officer at a bank branch near their Canary Wharf headquarters in London in 2010 file photo. Barclays announced on July 3, 2012, that Diamond had quit with immediate effect following a market-rigging scandal.

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Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn responds to questions at an event in 2009. In April 2012, Dunn resigned amid an internal probe of his "personal conduct." An audit committee later found that he had a “ ’closer personal relationship’ with a female employee that showed poor judgment," the Associated Press reported.

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In August 2010, then Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd stepped down following a probe into whether he sexually harassed a former contractor.

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Rebekah Brooks resigned as News International CEO in July 2011 amid a phone-hacking scandal in Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

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Oswald Gruebel resigned from his position as CEO of UBS after the Swiss bank suffered a $2 billion loss allegedly incurred by a rogue trader that plunged the UBS bank back into scandal just as it was rebuilding its tattered reputation.

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In March 2011, National Public Radio's chief executive Vivian Schiller was forced out of her job a day "after the news organization was embarrassed by a secretly recorded video that caught one of its top managers calling Republicans "anti-intellectual" and tea party members "racists"," The Post's Paul Farhi reported.

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Former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine quit as chairman and CEO of MF Global in November 2011 after the company filed for bankruptcy and became a target of federal investigations into whether it illegally or improperly moved customer funds.

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Olympus's then President Shuichi Takayama bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2011. Olympus admitted that it used a series of acquisitions to hide massive losses, reversing earlier denials of any wrongdoing as one of the largest accounting frauds in Japanese history rocked the nation's corporate image. Takayama later resigned in 2012.

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In 2011, Solyndra's CEO Brian Harrison, left, stepped down from his position as the company was being criticized for painting a rosy picture of its finances when in reality it was trying to fight off bankruptcy. The federal government later launched an investigation into the Solyndra. The company, however, denied that Harrison's resignation had anything to do with the probe.

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from left to right, Bodybuilders Jorge Villatoro, Sidney Bumbrey, Eric Holmes and Ron Coleman show off their most muscular poses for the judges at the 2013 Musclemania - Capital Tournament of Champions Contest held at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 18, 2013.
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A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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MOORE, OK - MAY 24: A 'For Sale' sign hangs in a tree in a storm ravaged neighborhood on May 24, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado of EF5 strength and two miles wide touched down May 20 killing at least 24 people and leaving behind extensive damage to homes and businesses. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON DC: MAY 22
Contestant Travis Rumans, 31 dances with his beloved glow sticks for talent at Penn Social in Washington, DC on May 22, 2013. The contestants help raise over $15,000 for the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
The Mr. DC pageant is a fundraising event to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
The qualifications for the Mr. District of Columbia finalists is that they must live, work and attend school in the District of Columbia between the ages of 21-30 who are unmarried, intelligent, and dapper in a suit.
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A Burrowing owl tries to perch on a protective rope in a public park in Cooper City, Fla. Monday, May 20, 2013 as rain falls. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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