In this week's column, LL, with the assistance of Jason Cherkis, examines Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham's close personal and political ties to Ted Loza—his top aide accused of taking $1,500 in bribes.
Loza occupied a privileged post in an office known for high turnover and heavyhanded management, organizing and accompanying Graham on overseas trips. Graham [...]

The Heights Life is pumped about the new fountain on 14th Street providing  pictures, a slideshow, and a written item. DCist has reporting from the opening of the finally completed plaza. Councilmember Jim Graham did not comment on the on-going-ness of the fed's bribery investigation which has already netted his Chief of Staff Ted Loza. [...]

Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has announced he's postponing a hearing on his taxicab medallion bill, one day after his chief of staff was arrested for accepting a bribe to influence it.
The hearing, which had been scheduled for Oct. 1, is being delayed to an unspecified date "[i]n light of the current context of events."
Graham's [...]

Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of Fiesta DC, can only remember one time when Ted Loza was humble.
Loza, the chief of staff to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham arrested today on bribery charges, had called on Aguilar for a big favor. He wanted the man to give his wife a job.
More than a year ago, Aguilar [...]

Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham says he has placed his chief of staff, arrested today in a federal bribery probe, on paid administrative leave, saying he is entitled to a presumption of innocence.
He also reiterated that Ted Loza had not tried to sway him on taxicab legislation: "Nothing that happened that has been alleged whether [...]

The wife of Ted Loza, the aide to Jim Graham arrested today on bribery charges, is a paid employee of an organization that has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in D.C. Council-directed earmarks.
Ligia X. Munoz is listed as doing "finances and administration" for Fiesta D.C., the group responsible for putting on the annual Latino [...]

LL just emerged from an impromptu press gaggle held by Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham. His longtime aide Ted Loza was arrested today on bribery charges after being videotaped accepting $1,500 in bribes to push a bill allowing hybrid taxicabs in the city.
Graham says he is "deeply troubled at the indictment of Teddy Loza...someone I [...]

Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham just told a horde of reporters that he's "deeply troubled at the indictment of Teddy Loza." This afternoon brought news that Loza, Graham's chief of staff, has been indicted on charges of accepting bribes in exchange for influencing legislation on taxicab regulation.
Looking to get a jump on his side [...]

"You know I need it. That's why I take it, you know."
Those are the words allegedly uttered by Ted Loza, chief of staff to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, after receiving a payoff from someone with an interest in taxi regulation, according to a federal indictment that was unsealed today. The indictment charges Loza with [...]

Ted Loza, longtime right-hand man to Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham, has been arrested to bribery, according to the Washington Post.
Loose Lips correspondent Mike DeBonis is on the scene at Graham's office at the John A. Wilson Building. He reports that agents are searching the office and are searching computer records at an administrative office [...]

Erik Wemple reports that the event attracted about 180 activists and celebrities and, by his count, roughly 12 police officers. “At one point, I saw five cruisers out front,” Wemple says.
 
Ted Loza, chief of staff for Ward 1 councilmember Jim Graham and one of the event's organizers, told Wemple the night brought out “people of high [...]