Yesterday’s news that Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) may have used money meant for a non-profit organization to cover a number of personal expenses certainly doesn’t bode well for Thomas. But maybe he shouldn’t feel too bad — after all, he’s not alone.

Counting the allegations against Thomas, at least six of the D.C. Council’s 13 members currently are or have been confronted with similar questions about their ethics, integrity and judgment. Yes, we’re actually one member away from having a legislative majority of ethically challenged legislators in the District.

Some of the situations are unique, while others — like the consistent misappropriation of funds for nice cars or failure to pay taxes — seem to come up again and again. Some allegations are clearly more serious than others, and while not all carry legal repercussions, they generally fail to pass the common sense smell test. And while D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown has proposed tightening the city’s rules on ethics, some good government experts have already called the effort “toothless.”

That said, here’s a summary of the ethically challenged members of the D.C. Council.

Kwame Brown: The former At-Large Councilmember and current Chair of the city’s legislature infamously demanded a fully-loaded luxury SUV after rising to the District’s second-highest elected office late last year. Not only did the SUV cost taxpayers about $2,000 a month before it was returned, it’s not even really something Brown was legally entitled to — under regulations, only the mayor is supposed to get a car, even though the council chair has traditionally been given one. But there’s more: a recent audit by the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance found that, in 2008, Brown steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to a company owned by his brother for work that couldn’t be described or properly accounted for.

Marion Barry: At this point, Councilmember Marion Barry’s (D-Ward 8) 1990 arrest for smoking crack seems relatively tame compared to what he’s been accused of recently. Beginning in 2005, Barry’s had a number of tax problems — that is, he wasn’t paying them — while in 2009, Barry was accused of steering a $15,000 city contract to a woman he was dating at the time and asking her to direct some of the funds back to him. Maybe the only good thing to come out of the latter scandal was one pretty epic City Paper cover.

Yvette Alexander: Earlier this year, the Office of Campaign Finance launched an investigation into complaints that Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) only used a small percentage of money raised for her constituent services fund to actually, you know, help her constituents. The Washington Times has also reported that Alexander paid rent for her constituent services office — councilmembers are entitled to free city office space for that purpose — to a prominent developer, H.R. Crawford, who had business before the city.

Jack Evans: The longest-serving member on the Council, Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) hasn’t been immune to allegations of ethical improprieties. In 2005, the Post revealed that Evans was using money from a political action committee he set up in the early 1990s to cover personal expenses, including travel for a friend to China and tickets to sports events. Evans, who also has a second job as a lawyer at the well-connected firm Patton Boggs, has also been periodically accused of conflicts of interest between companies represented by the firm who have business before the council.

Michael A. Brown: Like Evans, one of Brown’s ethical lapses may well have to do with his side job, which Councilmembers are legally allowed to have. (Along with Evans and Brown, David Catania (I-At-Large) and Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) also have second jobs; Kwame Brown also had one prior to assuming the Chair.) According to a recent Washington Post editorial, Brown not only pushed for online gambling to be legalized in the District last year, but did so while working for a law firm that has worked for gaming interests. And, like Barry, news broke earlier this year that Brown has also had trouble paying some of his taxes.

The Others: Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham was not directly implicated in the scandal — but it’s tough to forget that Ted Loza, Graham’s longtime chief of staff, was arrested in 2009 as part of a federal investigation into corruption in the city’s taxicab industry. (Coincidentally, Loza will be sentenced today.) And though he only recently returned to the Council after previously serving two terms representing Ward 5, many questioned Vincent Orange’s ethics after he raised money for a 2005 mayoral exploratory committee and refused to disclose the names of donors, along with several other candidates.