Yes, the happy couple were named in the Top 50 Most Powerful People in DC. Just so happened that the owners of the Poetry and Prose Bookshop a couple doors down from Comet pizza were also on that list. What sort of market sense does it make to open two pizza joints next to each other? That block is some kind of weird circles within circles within circles of DC uppity ups.
A three way or jilted lover or whatever it was was how he got into legal troubles and had to pay another lover, Gray, millions - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/27/media-matters-boss-paid-former-partner-850g-blackmail-settlement.html
Comet Ping Pong's James Alefentis, Barney Frank (yes, that one) and David Brock sporting a simply fabulous dog collar.