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Millicent West, Key Figure in Harry Thomas Jr. Saga, Resigns
D.C.'s Found Money
Good afternoon sweet readers! LL's wife has told [...]
Millicent West, who oversaw the Children & Youth Trust Investment Corp. during part of the period while disgraced former Ward 5 Coucilmember Harry Thomas Jr. used the CYITC to steal public money, has resigned from her current post as director of the District's homeland security agency, two Wilson Building sources confirm.
LL was first to report [...]
D.C. Mayor Vince Gray and Chief Financial Officer Nat Gandhi announced today that the District ended fiscal 2011 with an extra $240 million in its pocket, but Gray says don't expect any relief from the city's high taxes and fees.
Much of the reason for the extra bounty lies in an extra $97 million in income [...]
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Michael Brown Says Whole Lotta Possible Law Breaking Going On at Housing Department
Lobbyist Disclosure Forms: Who Needs 'Em?
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At-large Councilmember Michael A. Brown, who has oversight of the D.C. Council's housing committee, says he's asking the District attorney general and inspector general to investigate "unethical behavior and possible criminal malfeasance and collusion between contractors and current and former employees of the Department of Housing and Community Development."
Brown says his office [...]
In case you missed it, The Washington Post editorial page has posted a series of must-read emails between Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham and would-be lottery businessman Warren Williams and his lobbying team.
The emails, some of which were cited in The Washington Times last year, raise all kinds of questions about Graham's behavior in the [...]
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Newt Gingrich Needs to Update Email List
Vince Gray to HTJ: Don't Call Me
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Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich may want to have campaign staffers update the ol' fundraising email list, which is currently asking one of the District's leading gay rights advocates (and delegate to the Ward 3 Democrats) for money.
Shortly after Gingrich's big win in South Carolina, an email asking for a donation founds its way into [...]
Mayor Vince Gray's close friendship with disgraced former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. isn't looking so hot at the moment.
Gray was asked by reporters yesterday if he's spoken to Thomas since he resigned from the council and plead guilty to stealing more than $350,000 in city funding. The mayor said no, and was then [...]
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Yikes! Post Botches Story, Sort of Covers It Up
Anti-Myopic Little Twits PAC Formed
Prostitution Tuesday
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