A member of D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 election team pleaded guilty in federal court Aug. 13 to lying to the FBI about an alleged $635,000 “shadow campaign” that is under federal investigation. Vernon E. Hawkins, a former high-ranking city official, also admitted he tried to derail the federal investigation by giving $8,000 to […]
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D.C. Mayor, Police Chief Hail Drop in Murders on National Night Out
After recording its lowest number of homicides in five decades in 2012, the District of Columbia will never return to the record-setting levels of violence that wracked the city from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Aug. 6. “I don’t think we’ll ever go back to those days of the […]
