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In photo Vicent Gray, D.C.'s "black" mayor. What campaign? Gray's campaign was pure garbage. Where was this guy during the 60's anyway? Real talk, D.C.'s last black mayor was Marion Barry. Hopefully him and his team of clown prosecutors at the OAG will be put in jail soon. From [HERE] District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was elected in 2010 with the aid of $650,000 in illicit funds from a city businessman, a Gray campaign consultant acknowledged in federal court Tuesday.
Eugenia “Jeanne” Clarke Harris’s guilty plea confirmed that off-the-books payments were being used to pay for consultants, supplies and other expenses supporting Gray. The expenditures were never reported, and prosecutors described the effort as a “shadow campaign.”
U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said the plea casts a darker cloud over an election that was already tainted by revelations that Gray campaign operatives made illicit payments to a minor mayoral candidate who was assailing the then-incumbent mayor, Adrian Fenty. Two Gray campaign operatives have already pleaded guilty to their roles in that scheme. “In 2010, the mayoral campaign was compromised by backroom deals, secret payments and a flood of unreported cash,” Machen said. “The people of this city deserve better. They deserve the truth.”