Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Howard Brooks likely to plead guilty.
One of Mayor Vincent Gray's former campaign aides has been charged with one count of lying to the FBI in an unfolding political scandal, the Associated Press reports. Court documents say Howard Brooks, who served as a campaign consultant in Gray's 2010 bid for office, made payments to Sulaimon Brown. The cash was intended to persuade Brown to remain in the mayoral race and to continue to hurl negative comments toward incumbent candidate Adrian Fenty. The AP reports Brooks will likely plead guilty to the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. These charges come one day after Thomas Gore, Gray's assistant treasurer during the campaign, pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing justice by destroying records in a …
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thomas Gore pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Thomas Gore, the former assistant treasurer for Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and campaign finance violations in court Tuesday. Gore, 56, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to "one count of obstructing justice by destroying records in a federal investigation and three counts of making a campaign contribution in the name of another person," according to a press release from the FBI. Though the obstruction charge could carry up to 20 years in prison and a fine, the agreed upon sentencing range would be between 12 and 18 months in prison and a possible fine of $3,000 to $30,000, according to the FBI release. In a sworn statement, Gore …
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Mary Cheh vents her Sulaimon Brown frustrations.
Even if Council member Mary Cheh hasn’t gotten to the bottom of Mayor Gray’s hiring scandal, at least she’s working to expand our vocabulary, and providing us some insight into her frustrations as she wraps up her special investigation. Yes, you read correctly. She’s planning to wrap up the investigation, one that has yet to find a shred of hard evidence of nepotism, excessive salaries and all the things that are so common in politics. Cheh has alerted her colleagues she plans to hold a meeting Aug. 24 to update the investigation into hiring practices at the mayor’s office, allegations of nepotism and that crazy sunglasses-wearing, Adrian Fenty-bashing, whistle-blowing public-display-of-crying Sulaimon Brown. Recently, I had a chance to …
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8:39 am on Saturday, May 26, 2012
Part 2 of 4 gain/lose. That being stated, election fraud is a very real threat. That being the case, the charge that I’d really like to see Governor Scott, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, and all the rest of Governor Scott’s immediate cohorts lead is the charge to excise corrupt actors from the election process. Right now in Alachua County there is a proven criminally-corrupt judge—a judge by the… more ›