As expected, a campaign aide to Mayor Vince Gray pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators about his role in a scheme to pay fringe mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown to stay in the 2010 race and attack Mayor Adrian Fenty. more ›

Amid depressing news of two federal indictments of campaign aides to Mayor Vince Gray this week, at least one person has a sense of humor, albeit a dark one. more ›

Thomas Gore, a close friend and former assistant treasurer of his 2010 mayoral campaign, today pleaded guilty to steering money orders to the floundering campaign of fringe candidate Sulaimon Brown and then destroying evidence of the fact once federal investigators started looking into the allegations. more ›

An assistant treasurer for Mayor Vince Gray's 2010 mayoral campaign was charged today with violating campaign finance laws, including destroying evidence and funneling money to a campaign other than the one he worked for. more ›

Albrecht Muth was indicted yesterday for killing his 91-year-old wife, Viola Drath, last year, writes Homicide Watch. Beyond facing a charge of first degree murder for the killing of the Georgetown socialite, Muth faces additional time if convicted for "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" way Drath was killed and the fact that she was "especially vulnerable due to age." more ›

The amount stolen may be lower, but the crime and provenance of the elected official committing it is the same. more ›

"Guilty as charged, your honor" was all that former D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) had to say at a hearing in federal court this morning, bringing to a swift close a political and legal saga that has convulsed his ward and the District's political class at large over the last year. more ›

On August 22, 2010, Neil Michael Godleski was riding his bicycle through Sherman Circle when Eric Foreman, a 17-year-old who had in his possession a .38-caliber handgun that had been used less than 24 hours earlier in another gang-related shooting, shot him several times. Foreman was officially indicted yesterday on nine counts, including murder, robbery and firearm charges. more ›

Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson will be arraigned in a federal court this afternoon, and is expected to enter a plea on eight counts of bribery, conspiracy and extortion. more ›

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 ›

WaPo's David Nakamura has the word on the latest D.C. embezzlement scheme -- and whaddya know, they just keep getting rosier! In this most recent case, a mother and daughter duo from Bowie -- contracted in 2003 to manage a city-backed program responsible for finding employment and paying blind people -- were indicted yesterday on charges that they stole $281,000 which was supposed to go into said sight-impaired folks' pockets and pensions. According to the indictment, the two would take revenues which were slated to feed into the blind employees' retirement accounts and simply write checks to their own personal accounts -- for good measure, the city also terminated their management company's contract after they failed to pay taxes or report accurate accounting records. (Yup, that combination of actions will probably get you caught, even if it is five years after the fact.) The offending pair, 70 and 51 years old respectively, are facing up to ten years in the pokey and some hefty fines for actually engaging in a certain idiom which I've had to try really, really, really hard not to use here. more ›