Maggie Crane, the spokeswoman for Mayor Francis Slay, said that the “serious allegations certainly speak for themselves, but we admire how Kacie took full responsibility for her actions and will address them with the Missouri Ethics Commission.”

Tom Shepard, chief of staff for Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, said: “We are sorry to hear about this; we know she was popular with her constituency.”

Triplett, known for including biblical messages in her speeches and other communications, became one of the city’s youngest aldermen when she was elected in 2007. She resigned from the post representing Ward 6 — which spans parts of Downtown West, Lafayette Square and midtown — in 2012 and took a job for the nonprofit Behavioral Health Network of Greater St. Louis.

The organization issued a statement Thursday saying Triplett had left her position there.

Triplett was a local spokeswoman for President Barack Obama’s 2008 primary campaign. That year, she authored a bill to give a stretch of Delmar Boulevard the honorary street designation of “Barack Obama Boulevard.”

Brad Kessler, a lawyer who lost to Triplett in the 2011 aldermanic race, was quick to criticize Triplett on Thursday.