Posted on 07/07/2011 6:12:35 PM PDT by jazusamo
The federal prosecutor for the District will investigate Kwame R. Brown’s re-election committee for suspected criminal violations of campaign finance law after city elections officials Thursday substantiated findings of widespread irregularities during the D.C. Council chairman’s 2008 re-election race.
“It means we think there’s criminal activity here that needs to be looked into,” D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics Chairman Togo D. West Jr. said in a blunt assessment of the board’s decision to refer the case to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District.
The board’s conclusions were based on an audit performed by the Office of Campaign Finance that said Mr. Brown’s re-election committee didn’t report more than $100,000 in contributions and failed to report or substantiate hundreds of thousands of dollars more in expenditures, among other financial irregularities.
It makes Mr. Brown, a Democrat, the latest D.C. official to fall within the U.S. attorney’s sights in a series of ethics scandals that have shaken the faith of voters and forced city officials to police one another through hearings and legislation.
The U.S. attorney called a grand jury to hear allegations that Mayor Vincent C. Gray and campaign aides paid a minor mayoral candidate and promised him a job to bash incumbent Mayor Adrian M. Fenty before the Democratic primary last year. Mr. Gray repeatedly has denied the claims.
The accusations prompted 26 hours of testimony from 19 witnesses during several public hearings before the council’s Committee on Government Operations and the Environment. The committee is expected to produce a report by this fall with suggestions on how to “tighten up” hiring in the excepted services, or political appointees who serve at the will of the mayor.
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Trotskyites v. Leninists?
the last DC mayoral election was the most racist I think I’ve ever seen ...all about getting rid of the Asian school superintendent who was trying to impose standards. Can’t have THAT, not in *our* corrupt union controlled schools.
Shaken the faith of voters...are you frigging kidding me?
Yes, she was a breath of fresh air. The corrupt powers that be had to get rid of her because of her honesty and caring for students plus she was getting publicity and it made the others look bad. :-)
Exactly. Shaken so bad they voted in crack head Barry time after time after time after time.
LOL! The voters seem to keep reelecting them, Marion comes to mind. :)
Kwame a river......
Election fraud against Democrats, in other words serious and prosecutable.
They are prosecuting him because he didn’t live up to the election standards of D.C., ... he wasn’t corrupt enough! There are standards to uphold and they will not tolerate a slacker like Brown!
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