Three of the last five mayors have faced federal charges and have presided over a government that has consistently failed to provide even the most basic city services.
Richard Causey, Enron's chief accounting officer, presided over a series of accounting judgments that went well beyond the aggressive and failed to provide the board with sufficient information about transactions.
It just failed to unseat a president presiding over one of the longest stretches of mass unemployment since the Great Depression.
He failed to heed that lesson and continued to preside over thousands of nursing job losses.
But Mr Jenkins failed to expose the primary culprit presiding over this disgraceful state of affairs, in terms of arts funding: Arts Council England.
Since taking over the tiny ex-Soviet state of Georgia from an ousted president in 1992, he has lost its western flank to separatists, failed to thaw frozen ties to Russia and presided over a thoroughly corrupt, somnolent economy.
Patrick E. Tyler (NYT) RUSSIA: JUDGE STAYS IN SPY TRIAL Lawyers for the former American naval intelligence officer Edmond Pope failed to win the dismissal of the judge presiding over his espionage trial.
But Judge Barry Williams, who was presiding, said the state failed to prove Goodson had malicious intentions. .
Though the UN Security Council, over which South Africa has been presiding, debated the crisis, it failed to agree on a collective response.
