Managing Director of NBC News Brain Williams, suspended from NBC for 6 months without pay.

Anchor man Brain Williams's break from Nightly News just got longer: NBC has suspended the anchor for six months.

Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist, who is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed on December 2, 2004.

Williams, 55, will be replaced by Lester Holt during the suspension, the network announced in a note to staff Tuesday. He won't be paid during the leave, and NBC's investigation into his conduct will continue.
The controversy erupted last week, when Williams repeated his 2013 claim that he was in a helicopter brought down by enemy fire while embedded during the war in Iraq in 2003.

"It then became clear that on other occasions Brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. This was wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in Brian’s position," Deborah Turness, president of NBC News, said in the memo. "In addition, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside NBC News while Brian was talking about his experiences in the field."