If Fairfax County wanted the FBI headquarters relocated to the Virginia suburbs, we certainly wouldn't line up to stop them. more ›

The U.S. attorney and other federal officials involved in the investigation into former Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. took a victory lap at a press conference Friday afternoon. more ›

They didn't get a rocket launcher or hand grenades, but officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and FBI did manage to seize 161 weapons and $7.2 million worth of drugs and make 70 arrests in a huge bust announced today. more ›

Mike DeBonis follows up on FBI and IRS agents’ search of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.’s home, a response to allegations that Thomas steered $300,000 of public money to his private use. DeBonis finds that Thomas continues to enjoy unwavering support from a select group of loyal backers and D.C. residents, despite increased federal scrutiny and a looming indictment. more ›

For everyone who was wondering why federal prosecutors were taking their sweet time in going after Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) for steering $300,000 of city funds to himself, the wait may be over -- WTOP's Mark Segraves reported that the FBI is searching his home and car this morning. more ›

Housing Complex reported this morning on a study from the federal government that concluded what pretty much every District resident and visitor has long known: the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue is ugly and useless at effectively housing the agency. more ›

This afternoon, a man arrested in connection with a plot that planned bombings against two Washington embassies and targeted the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States pleaded not guilty to various charges. more ›

The man who robbed two Wells Fargo bank branches in the span of eight days is still at-large, and federal authorities are asking the public for help. more ›

This afternoon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Agency announced that they had disrupted a "major terrorist plot" which included plans to attack targets in Washington. more ›

Ted Loza, a former aide to D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham who pled guilty to a federal charge of accepting an illegal gratuity in February, was sentenced to eight months in prison this afternoon. more ›

Some pretty damning video here: Ted Loza, the former Jim Graham chief of staff who pled guilty to felony bribery charges in February, is clearly seen on tape accepting money from an FBI informant outside the District's city hall. more ›

On January 9, 1999, Joyce Chiang disappeared. Today, police announced that they had closed the case. more ›

Around 11:30 this morning, staff members found a suspicious envelope in the mailroom at Fletcher Johnson Education Center inside H.D. Woodson High School, located at 4650 Benning Road SE. A D.C. Fire and EMS special operations team responded to the scene and are investigating, along with other law enforcement officials, including representatives from the FBI. more ›

Eight more suspicious letters have been collected at or en route to D.C. schools today, adding to the 28 found yesterday, all containing a white, powdery substance. more ›

Independence Avenue SW has been shut down to traffic between 4th and 7th Streets, as federal authorities investigate a suspicious vehicle. Twitter tipster @shawnredern has posted this photo from the scene at the intersection of 6th Street and Maryland Avenue, where vehicles have blocked off access. The real question: what kind of effect, if any, is this having on geographically-challenged newspaper hawkers up the street? more ›

UPDATE: NBC4 reports that Johnson's wife has also been arrested. Charges on both have not yet been revealed. Not many details as of yet, but TBD is reporting that Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson was taken away in handcuffs today and arrested after federal agents executed search warrants at his home and county office. Johnson has reportedly been under investigation by an FBI corruption task force -- but the reason why wasn't immediately clear. Johnson had less than month remaining in his term as county executive -- Rushern L. Baker III will take his place in December. Obviously, more on this story as it comes to light. more ›

Federal authorities believe former D.C. Taxicab Commission chairman Causton Toney participated in a long-running bribery scheme while he held that position from 2005-2007, the Washington Post reports this morning. A recently unsealed affidavit lays out the FBI's suspicions against Toney, who has not been charged with any crime, but whose home was raided in October. more ›

If you've been following the large-scale FBI investigation into attempts to bribe public officials associated with the D.C. taxicab industry, you've got to read Jason Cherkis's cover story this week in the Washington City Paper. Cherkis spent some time with a few of the 30+ men named in the indictment, and found that federal prosecutors may well be overreaching in their attempts to prosecute some of these guys. more ›

A creepy new development today in the ongoing federal investigation into allegations of widespread bribery attempts inside the D.C. taxicab industry, courtesy the Post's Del Quentin Wilber: court documents released today detail how one of the 39 men charged in the bribery ring, Yitbarek Syume, allegedly threatened to murder FBI informant Abdulaziz Kamus when his name surfaced in media reports shortly after the investigation became public.

The papers reveal that Yitbarek Syume met with an undercover FBI agent and an informant on the day after the top staffer of a prominent D.C. Council member was arrested on bribery charges. The three men discussed the high-profile arrest and how to avoid detection of their scheme, which funneled more than $300,000 to a D.C. government official, prosecutors wrote in court papers, citing a surreptitious recording of the meeting.

More than two dozen people have been indicted in the rapidly expanding federal bribery investigation into the D.C. taxi industry, the Post's Del Quentin Wilber is reporting. That's a whole lotta people. So who, besides Ted Loza, are they? They're "cab drivers or others with financial ties to the industry," most of whom will probably be arrested today, according to anonymous sources. Keep your eye out for handcuffed cab drivers this afternoon! more ›

Even though a new Washington Post report today suggests D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) may not actually be a target of the corruption investigation that ensnared his chief of staff, the D.C. Republican Committee keeps hounding him like he definitely is. more ›

After first merely postponing a hearing on his recently proposed taxicab legislation in the wake of related federal bribery charges against his chief of staff, Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham has gone ahead and withdrawn the bill entirely, Tim Craig is reporting at D.C. Wire. In a rich bit of political theater, Graham is also apparently trying to sell reporters on the notion that this decision has "nothing to do" with the charges against Ted Loza. "Graham said he is pulling the bill because of confusion and opposition within the taxicab industry to a medallion system." Suuuuuure. more ›

Two big updates today on the ongoing federal bribery probe into Ted Loza, chief of staff to Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham. more ›

Last week's arrest and indictment of Ted Loza, Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham's chief of staff, continues to put Graham in a rather unpleasant spotlight this morning. After WUSA9 first reported on Monday that the FBI investigation was also targeting the councilman, FOX-5 followed up last night with its own story, noting that Graham refused to go on the record all day on Monday in response to the allegations (earlier that morning when we saw him, Graham claimed he still hadn't read the story). more ›

What constitutes a violent crime? That's the question at the root of this report from the Examiner's Scott McCabe, which notes that an FBI report released on Monday shows that violent crime in the District actually increased by 2.3 percent in 2008, despite D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier's triumphant announcement earlier this year that it had dropped by 5 percent. The FBI and the MPD use different measurements, you see, when it comes to counting violent crimes. "Under the D.C. Code, a punch is considered a simple assault; under the FBI's definition, it's considered an aggravated assault, or a violent crime, D.C. police said." So according to the MPD, if someone punches you in the face and steals your wallet, that's not a violent crime? Or a man beating his wife is not a violent crime? more ›

The Examiner has an interesting pair of crime stories today, both of which note dramatic decreases in certain types of crime in the District this year. First is a story that reports the number of carjackings is way down in D.C.: there have been about 200 carjackings in the city this year, compared with approximately 600 in all of 2008. Next is a piece of speculation about whether the correlation of having an oddly cool summer season has been one of the contributing factors to this year's decrease in homicides, both in D.C. and in other American cities. more ›

D.C. Wire is reporting that Yusuf Acar, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer employee who was arrested by the FBI in March for allegedly running an elaborate kickback and bribery scheme, is in talks with prosecutors about a potential plea deal. An Aug. 3 hearing is now set on the progress of the plea agreement for Acar. Another city employee, Farruk Awan, was also arrested in the case, along with businessman Sushil Bansal. more ›

With a tip of the hat to D.C. Wire, here's a YouTube video featuring D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employee Yusuf Acar, who was arrested this morning by federal agents, from a Citywide Job Fair last fall: more ›

FBI agents are searching the One Judiciary Square offices of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer this morning. The FBI is being tight lipped about what they are searching for, telling Politico only that the search is part of "an ongoing investigation." WTOP's Mark Segraves has been Twittering from the scene, adding that agents have since moved from the 9th floor OCTO offices to the 10th floor of One Judiciary Square, which houses the Office of the Attorney General. Some employees in the building have been sent home, according to Segraves. more ›

The AP has reported that Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) expressed skepticism over the FBI's contention that Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax attacks. more ›