This morning, Examiner's Michael Neibauer broke off another scoop from the fishy fire truck story that he broke last spring. On the heels of a D.C. Council investigative report, he describes how Dennis Rubin, the city's fire and EMS chief, testified on April 1 last year that he knew very little about the shady donation [...]

UPDATED, 4:03 P.M.
Shocker: The D.C. Council did not take Peter Nickles' advice and ditch their investigation into the mysterious donation of a city fire truck and ambulance to a little-known Dominican town. In fact, after months of anticipation, they've finally released their reports.
Read both of them: From Mary Cheh's government operations committee [4MB PDF] and [...]

A heretofore mystery man in the fishy fire truck affair has spoken: Vladimir Céspedes, mayor of the Dominican Republic city of Sosúa, told reporters today about the caper that has generated a great deal of political heat in this town.
Turns out it's not just this town. Céspedes, through a translator, tells LL that he has [...]

As LL first broke yesterday, the D.C. Council is embroiled in a dispute with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty over control of Channel 13—the District's public access channel devoted to airing council proceedings.
The dispute is rooted in last Thursday's 'open deposition' of Peaceoholics co-founder Ronald Moten—an unorthodox proceeding, to be sure. As a deposition, Councilmembers Mary [...]