Sentences with phrase «resigned after»

Donovan first took office in May 2015 after winning a special election to replace Michael Grimm, who had resigned after pleading guilty in a federal tax evasion case.

Robinson played a key role last week in appointing Nicoletti to replace Common Councilor Pam Hunter, who resigned after winning a seat in the state Assembly.

Enid Rey, Hartford's executive director of school choice, has resigned after several years at the helm of the city school system's nationally touted integration efforts.

Empire State Development took over control of Fort Schuyler's projects last year after SUNY Poly's president, Alain Kaloyeros, resigned after being arrested on state and federal corruption charges.

Even its longtime work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, eventually broke ranks and resigned after a budget that proposed still further cuts to disabled people's benefits.

Flanagan was elected majority leader earlier in the month when former leader Dean Skelos resigned after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced in February, shortly after taking over for Sheldon Silver, who resigned after being hit with federal corruption charges, that he was going to hire someone to clean the place up.

The allegations against Latvala come after Senate Democratic Leader - designate Jeff Clemens, a close ally of his, resigned after he admitted to an affair with a lobbyist.

A Rockland assistant public defender resigned after being charged with drunken driving and spending a night in jail for disrespecting a village judge during an unrelated court proceeding.

Mitchell eventually resigned after calling a policeman a «f *** ing pleb» last month, but his appearance in front of the international development committee concerned a second controversy over his support for Rwanda.

Tomorrow, MPs will elect a new Deputy Speaker to replace Nigel Evans, who resigned after being charged with sexual assault.

Even just quoting Powell can cost you your job: step forward Nigel Hastilow, the former Conservative PPC for Halesowen and Rowley Regis, who resigned after writing in 2007 that Powell «was right and immigration has changed the face of Britain dramatically».

Three shadow cabinet members and one front bencher resigned after imposed a three - line whip on Labour MPs to back triggering Article 50.

Salmond resigned after Scotland voted No on 18 September last year.

Philippe Reins, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, blasted Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for saying that Bill Clinton should've resigned after his relationship with an intern was revealed during his presidency.

Kavanagh resigned after winning election to District 26 of the New York State Senate in a special election on November 7, 2017.

Charles Clarke resigned after the bungled release of foreign prisoners.

The former deputy press secretary to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer who resigned after writing inflammatory racial statements on her Facebook profile has been fired from her position as a campaign photographer for Democratic Council candidate Heidi Harrison Chain.

To an outside observer, Donovan's election seems improbable both because of his role in the Garner case and because his GOP predecessor, Republican Rep. Michael Grimm, resigned after pleading guilty to felony tax charges.

Scott called the special election after former Rep. Daisy Baez, a Coral Gables Democrat, resigned after pleading guilty to a perjury charge in an investigation into her residency.

Diaz resigned after winning election to the District 18 seat on the New York City Council in New York.

«This was not a coincidence,» asserted the former Democratic governor, who resigned after an affair with a prostitute became public.

Flanagan marks one year in his post this week, after replacing Skelos, who resigned after his indictment in May 2015.

Some Yonkers residents are getting out to vote on Tuesday for a special election to replace a Westchester County legislator who resigned after 20 years on the job.

Sen. Al Franken resigned after pictures of him pretending to grope a woman in 2006 emerged.

That's when he resigned after being found guilty on 16 charges of federal corruption.

I know we've already had one Lib Dem departure: the former chief secretary to the Treasury David Laws, of course, resigned after just 17 days on the job.

Prior to that, she was lead corporation counsel under Miner — a job from which she resigned after about 18 months.

A former Tory MP has resigned after he was suspended from the Commons for six months for allegedly asking questions in Parliament in return for money.

Mr. Cuomo has yet to declare Mr. Grimm's former seat vacant in the month since the Republican resigned after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge — and the governor went so far as to tell the Observer last month he had no time frame for doing so.

Mr McBride resigned after publication of the emails — which included scurrilous and untrue rumours about the private lives of leading Conservatives.

The other, Patrick Mercer, resigned after a lobbying scandal.

Oswego, N.Y. — A Hannibal Central School District board member has resigned after she was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated following a crash on State Route 104 Monday afternoon, according to media reports.

Clegg resigned after the party's worst performance in a general election since it was formed from the merger of the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party in 1988.

The special election is needed because the previous incumbent resigned after being charged with reckless driving.

Sajid Javid has been appointed as home secretary, replacing Amber Rudd who resigned after repeatedly struggling to account for her role in the unjust treatment of Windrush - generation migrants.

The town clerk in Barker, Broome County, resigned after saying she could not issue the licenses to gay couples.

The police commissioner for Nassau County resigned after an investigation alleged his involvement in a politically - tinged arrest connected to this year's county executive race.

James Hudson, 37, Britain's deputy consul - general to the Urals, resigned after a local news website posted a video showing him engaged in sexual acts with two women believes to be prostitutes.

Former Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who resigned after wearing a wire for federal prosecutors for close to his entire tenure in office, is thinking about running for his old seat.

The head of her legal department resigned after Miner unhired two young attorneys who were in the process of moving to Syracuse, leaving them without jobs and children in tow, in order to hire the daughter of a local judge and political ally.

Some are now calling for armed guards in schools even as a sheriff's deputy stationed at the school resigned after it was revealed he took cover and did not respond to the shots being fired.

This comes one month after the Buffalo - area Republican abruptly resigned after Gawker posted a shirtless photo the married then - congressman sent to a woman on Craigslist in hopes of setting up a tryst.

Andy Coulson has finally resigned after a political scandal that has lasted half a decade.

A longtime WNY town justice resigned after the state Commission on Judicial Conduct filed disciplinary charges against him for arraigning a woman on drunken driving and other charges and then giving her a ride home.

Nick Herbert, the ex-policing minister who resigned after he was not offered a place in the Cabinet, had reportedly cleared his desk at the Home Office before the reshuffle began.

In Norfolk Labour gained a byelection from UKIP in Norfolk when a UKIP councillor resigned after admitting to shop lifting.

The general secretary of the Labour party has resigned after the party faced a fresh row over donations.

Brian Hawes, who was a UKIP town councillor in Haverhill in Suffolk has resigned after saying: «We don't give leaflets to black people.»

Solicitor General Barbara Underwood became acting attorney general on Tuesday, taking over for the disgraced Eric Schneiderman, who resigned after a New Yorker article detailed four women who accused him of numerous instances of physical violence.