Key Points
The USA has finally announced its ambassador to India Eric Garcetti, former Los Angeles Mayor, got the job over 2.5 years after his name was first announced for the post...
However, the last years of his nine-year-long Mayoral tenure were rocked by scandals, which cost him a job in the Biden cabinet and almost derailed his ambassador bid...
While his nomination as ambassador to India was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January last year, in March, US Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican, placed a hold on it, citing the Jacobs allegations..
A report by Grassley concluded that Garcetti likely knew or should have known that Jacobs was allegedly sexually harassing city employees and had also made racist comments...
On March 13, Naomi Seligman, a former communications director for Garcetti, told CNN that, He is unfit to become an ambassador or really to hold public office anywhere in this country or this world, over the Jacobs episode..
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