article_snippet.sent: A senior aide to US Senator Kelly Ayotte has resigned after A senior aide to US Senator Kelly Ayotte was arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute, the senator's office said.
article_snippet.sent: Ayotte also called Wihby her longtime friend.
article_snippet.sent: Here Ayotte (right) and Wihby (center, back) are pictured together on what appears to be a bus.
article_snippet.sent: Ayotte said that Wihby was Wihby 'friend for many years' Wihby (right)
article_snippet.sent: Ayotte talks to reporters in 2014 as Wihby (fifth from left) stands close by.
article_snippet.sent: Ayotte said that Wihby resigned because Ayotte 'obviously cannot continue Ayotte duties' '
article_snippet.sent: said Ayotte was 'shocked and deeply saddened' by Wihby's arrest.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ayotte was arrested on Friday on a misdemeanor charge for solicitation of prostitution and stepped down from Ayotte government role on Saturday .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ayotte said in a statement that Ayotte was 'shocked and deeply saddened' by Wihby's arrest .