{"id":19087,"date":"2026-02-17T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hyatt-hotels-chair-steps-down-over-epstein-association\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:21:08","slug":"hyatt-hotels-chair-steps-down-over-epstein-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hyatt-hotels-chair-steps-down-over-epstein-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyatt Hotels chair steps down over Epstein association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Pritzker resigned as executive chair of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation on Monday, citing his association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as reason for the departure.&nbsp; Files released by the Justice Department show Pritzker was in close contact with Epstein in the years after Epstein&rsquo;s 2008 plea deal for procuring a minor for&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5740879-pritzker-epstein-controversy-resignation-hyatt\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Pritzker resigned as executive chair of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation on Monday, citing his association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as reason for the departure.&nbsp; Files released by the Justice Department show Pritzker was in close contact with Epstein in the years after Epstein&rsquo;s 2008 plea deal for procuring a minor for&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}