Posts Tagged ‘scandal’
Report: Ward 5 Councilmember to resign in plea deal
D Block, Alcatrazcourtesy of itjournalist
We only gave Harry Thomas Jr the #3 slot in 2011’s Worst of Scandals list, but it appears he will be the number one figure in DC politics for the next few weeks. WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson is reporting that Councilmember Thomas will resign as part of a plea deal that [...]
CM Yvette Alexander fined $4,000 by OCF for misuse of constituent funds
‘_MG_4345′courtesy of ‘dbking’
Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander was fined $4,000 by the Office of Campaign Finance, related to the findings that “Councilmember Alexander’s Constituent Services Fund (CSF) made an expenditure for campaign activities; and that her Constituent Services Program (CSP) failed to report certain expenditures on required quarterly reports, both in violation of the D.C. [...]
Somebody Going To Emergency, Somebody’s Going To Jail
Kilmainham Jail (Gaol) by Sean Munson
There’s Politics, there’s politics, and then there’s Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois. He was arrested this morning on a Federal warrant for corruption charges. You can read the press release (PDF) or you can read the whole complaint (PDF).
It reads like a bad novel. Seriously, [...]
