{"id":66540,"date":"2026-02-17T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/la-mayor-calls-for-casey-wasserman-to-step-down-as-olympics-chair-over-epstein-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:55:57","slug":"la-mayor-calls-for-casey-wasserman-to-step-down-as-olympics-chair-over-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/la-mayor-calls-for-casey-wasserman-to-step-down-as-olympics-chair-over-epstein-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"LA mayor calls for Casey Wasserman to step down as Olympics chair over Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>LA 2028 committee voted last week to keep Wasserman<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Emails with Ghislaine Maxwell were revealed in files<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pressure built Tuesday on Casey Wasserman as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing team after the city\u2019s mayor urged him to leave over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s former girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>LA Mayor Karen Bass told CNN late Monday \u201cmy opinion is that he should step down\u201d despite Wasserman getting support last week from the LA 2028 organizing board to stay.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/17\/karen-bass-casey-wasserman-la-olympics-maxwell-epstein-files\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA 2028 committee voted last week to keep Wasserman Emails with Ghislaine Maxwell were revealed in files Pressure built Tuesday on Casey Wasserman as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing team after the city\u2019s mayor urged him to leave over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s former girlfriend. LA Mayor Karen Bass told CNN &#8230; <a title=\"LA mayor calls for Casey Wasserman to step down as Olympics chair over Epstein ties\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/la-mayor-calls-for-casey-wasserman-to-step-down-as-olympics-chair-over-epstein-ties\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LA mayor calls for Casey Wasserman to step down as Olympics chair over Epstein ties\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}