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NBC4 gets the first react from Marion Barry on yesterday's late breaking news that federal prosecutors will once again seek jail time for the D.C. Council member. Barry stands accused of violating his parole yet again by failing to file a tax return for the year 2007. In typical Barry style, the mayor for life pleads ignorance to the latest developments.
"I haven't seen any papers, I haven't seen where they've been filed," Barry said. "My lawyers and I talk; they have not received anything, so I don't know what they're talking about."
News 4 reporter Miguel Almaguer then offers to show him the complaint, which he refuses
"I don't want to see them," Barry said. "If they serve them to me like they're supposed to, that's fine, but I have nothing to say about what they said."
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This should be his next campaign slogan...
Marion Barry: Ain't Trying 2 Hear It
Our hero.
Well done, demonfafa, I definitely choked on my coffee laughing at that one.
Damn. I was expecting him to use his signature line. But I suppose he don't have a bi**h to blame for setting him up anymore.
WTF ever happened to Rasheeda Moore anyway? I keep expecting to see her on Dancing With the Stars?
i think he should be the manager of the new Apple store.
apropos of nothing, that's one hell of a cosby sweater at 25 seconds in...
Is you is, or is you ain't a tax dodger?
Y'all should really put this embedded video after the jump so everytime you reload the DCist homepage it doesn't play again.
It doesn't replay automatically in my browser, but if other people are experiencing that I'll happily move it below the fold. Consensus?
It's most likely a problem with our stupid firewall here at work, it does a lot of funky stuff 'cause the people who run it are IDIOTS.
doesn't autoplay for me...firefox 3 in mac os 10.4.11
He's a slippery little shit.
And Jim Graham actually defends him. Just another DC Council douche.
IMGoph and suances ... I was thinking the same things. Maybe council members should be exempt from filing taxes much like they are exempt from paying parking tickets, following DC parking laws, taking on cell phones while driving ... etc.
I'm assuming he's going to use the well-settled "don't hafta if I don't wanna" defense.
It would be a mistake to send Crackie to prison. All you do by doing so is inflame his sense of self importance.
Can we put him on 24 hour crap patrol in Bloomingdale?
we don't want him, thank you very much!
Barry will never go to jail for failing to pay taxes. It's that simple. And he will be re-elected until he's dead. And even then he could probably still win.