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“When you abuse state power and freeze bank accounts and throw people in jail — the editor in chief, the chief executive, the founder — it smacks of a banana republic,” said Mark Clifford, an independent nonexecutive director of Next Digital.

Coladangelo, a former lobbyist, became a nonexecutive director on the department’s board late last year.

In November, he was appointed to a three-year term as a nonexecutive director of Britain’s Department for International Trade.

“Steve Wynn is an industry giant,” Boone Wayson, nonexecutive director of the board, said in the statement announcing Wynn’s resignation.

Mr. Bush was a nonexecutive director of St. Louis-based Engineered Support Systems, whose profits were bolstered because of the Iraq War.