The Evening Standard Web site reports:
London Mayor Ken … was suspended from duty for four weeks from March 1 after being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute.
The three-man Adjudication Panel for England unanimously ruled that Mr Livingstone had been “unnecessarily insensitive and offensive” to Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold in February last year.
David Laverick, chairman of the disciplinary panel sitting in central London, said: “His treatment of the journalist was unnecessarily insensitive and offensive. He persisted with a line of comment likening the journalist’s job to a concentration camp guard, despite being told that the journalist was Jewish and found it offensive to be asked if he was a German war criminal.” …
Thanks to reader Jon Shapiro for the pointer.