Jim Powers resigned two weeks after Gov. Ed Rendell said that he was 'deeply embarrassed' by revelations of a $125,000 contract with the Philadelphia-based Institute of Terrorism Research and Response.
Rendell announced the resignation on Friday, although he had for weeks insisted he wanted Powers to stay. 'Jim is a good man who made a very significant mistake in judgment,' he said at a news conference on Friday. Rendell terminated the contract with ITRR immediately upon learning of it."
