Charles Pugh is officially history.
And he has broken his three-month silence after his sudden and strange disappearance.
The former City Council president has formally resigned his post days after being spotted at a meeting for black journalists in New York, the city’s clerk’s office confirmed.
Pugh handed his resignation via letter, saying he had another job.
Later, Matt Helms of the Free Press got Pugh on the phone.
"I needed some time to recover from this situation that hit me like a tsunami,” Pugh told the Free Press this afternoon from a location he wouldn’t disclose, although he was spotted in recent days attending a session of an association of black journalists in New York. “I’m doing a lot better now. I’m moving on, by the grace of God.”
Pugh suddenly disappeared from Detroit and the council chamber nearly three months ago, just after the mother of a high school student charged Pugh had had an improper relationship with her son. No charges have been filed, and the nature of the relationship was never made clear, other than Pugh had mentored the boy and given him money for shopping.
He was spotted in June in a Seattle coffee shop, but otherwise has been unseen, and silent.
Pugh is a former television reporter at WJBK Fox 2.
City Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr stripped Pugh of his pay, title and duties when he failed to meet a deadline to return to work after Orr rejected a request for a month-long medical leave.
