Sentences with phrase «because of a prostitution scandal»

A candidate like Spitzer — whose name is known throughout the city because of the prostitution scandal that ousted him from office five years ago — would typically have no trouble gathering signatures.

Eliot Spitzer became governor after a high - profile stint as attorney general before he was forced to resign because of a prostitution scandal.

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Spitzer's ordinary sin — any number of politicians have survived prostitution scandals — ended his tenure as governor because his governorship was already going terribly.

Since then, New York has seen a governor, Eliot Spitzer, depart office in a prostitution scandal and a steady lineup of state lawmakers departing their jobs because of convictions on everything from bribery to theft of state grants to embezzlement or, in what appears to be a reliable failing in Albany, sexual harassment of staff members.