Last year, when LL first started looking at medicaid contractor Jeff Thompson's political giving, At-Large Councilmember Vincent Orange, who is at the top of Thompson's money list, wouldn't return LL's calls. When the Washington Post did its own profile of Thompson a few weeks later, Orange told the paper, "I'm not talking about Jeff Thompson."
But after [...]

One small detail in the current federal investigation into Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 mayoral campaign that's escaped much notice is the fact that attorney Fred Cooke Jr. is now three for three in recent federal probes involving city officials.
Cooke was there almost from the start when former Attorney General Peter Nickles started looking into disgraced [...]

We all know that the U.S. Attorney hasn't been shy in dumping subpoenas all over D.C. politics in search of records related to prolific giver of money orders Jeff Thompson. But what about outside of D.C.? Have the pols who have gotten Thompson money had to fork over their records? At least one says he [...]