(Providence, RI)--Longtime Providence City Council member Luis Aponte is resigning, according to the Rhode Island Attorney General's office.Aponte pleaded no contest yesterday to a felony count of embezzlement and was given a suspended four-and-a-half-year sentence with probation.The stepping-down from the council is part of the plea deal for Aponte, who was first elected to the council in 1998 and has served as its president.The A.G.'s office says Aponte stole from his campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, totaling nearly 14-thousand dollars.Last December, former councilman Kevin Jackson, who was once Aponte's second-in command as majority leader, was sentenced to prison for embezzlement.