The CEO of the Democratic National Committee resigned Tuesday amid fallout from the recent email leak that appeared to show the party actively favoring Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) during the Democratic primary.
Amy Dacey is the DNC’s highest ranking official to step down from the committee after WikiLeaks released a trove of more than 19,000 embarrassing hacked emails late last month, the Associated Press reported.
The organization is expecting additional resignations Tuesday, according to Democratic strategists.
Dacey has already been hired by Washington-based consulting firm Squared Communications.
Her resignation comes a week after DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) announced she would leave the committee on the eve of the party’s national convention in Philadelphia. Wasserman Schultz decided not to speak during the convention after critics booed her at the Florida delegation breakfast.
The Democratic Party discovered in April that their computer systems had been breached. The DNC said the Russian government was behind the hack, charges the Kremlin denies but which some national security officials believe to be true.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Clinton campaign both confirmed Friday that their computers also appeared to be hacked by Russians.
The FBI opened an investigation into the breaches last week.