For a while last year it looked like Secretary of State Shelley might be forced out of office just before the Presidential election. Certainly his goose was publicly cooked by the beginning of October as three separate charges of corruption had hit the press in the last week of September. See here, here and here.
But no, the powers-that-be managed to string it out until the new year, but it just couldn't be shoved under the carpet any longer. Especially, one expects, with a Republican governor (too bad about that recall, eh, Mr. Shelley?).
BoiFromTroi has been keeping up with the more recent progress of the investigation and Friday's resignation.