Buffett Exits as Gates Foundation Trustee, Sidestepping Rift
- Billionaire resigns as charity grapples with divorce upheaval
- Resignation, donation remarks ‘are no swan song,’ Buffett says
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Warren Buffett resigned as a trustee at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the charity grapples with upheaval created by the divorce of its namesake founders, and the billionaire finds himself at the center of controversy over the ultra-wealthy and taxes.
“My goals are 100% in sync with those of the foundation,” Buffett, 90, said Wednesday in a statement that also announced he had reached the halfway mark in giving all of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shares to charity.