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MSU Trustee George Perles offered a letter of resignation to Board Chairman Brian Breslin on November 28, citing the effects of Parkinson’s disease as his reason for resigning.

MSU Trustee George Perles offered a letter of resignation to Board Chairman Brian Breslin on November 28. Today, Breslin announced he had accepted Perles’s resignation.

Perles, 84, was elected to the Board in 2006. In the letter, Perles cited the effects of Parkinson’s disease as his reason for resigning.

The former football coach and athletic director is being sued in federal court for allegedly covering up a claim that Larry Nassar had raped a student athlete in 1992. Perles has denied the allegations.

According to a press release, Governor Snyder’s office has been made aware of Perles’s resignation, and Breslin anticipates the Governor appointing someone to fill the seat. Perles’s term was set to expire in 2023.

Tyler Silvestri Tyler Silvestri is a third-year law student at MSU who received his bachelor’s degree in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy from MSU’s James Madison College in 2017. He spent one year as the Assistant Director of ASMSU’s Student Rights Advocates and two years as a Resident Assistant. He is the Chairperson of the University Committee on Academic Governance. He can be reached at Tyler@onthebanksmsu.com. See author's posts