He had left it five years later, one step ahead of a corruption investigation.
"But in the long run this is going to be very good for the country," the President said of the corruption investigation.
The corruption investigation had already taken down a number of state lawmakers.
The city, he added, is cooperating with the corruption investigation.
The Federal investigation is the latest in a series of corruption investigations here.
Money that needs to be lost, quick, as a corruption investigation is on the boil.
A broad corruption investigation is leading to increasing calls for change within the council.
The department is also undergoing a corruption investigation by Federal prosecutors.
"When I and my staff worked to conduct corruption investigations, they attempted to stop me."
Many of those people are at the center of a federal corruption investigation.