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 ›

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 ›

Two pieces of courtroom action to keep track of from today. more ›

Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton was charged with two misdemeanor counts of unlawful gun possession earlier today, but has already entered a guilty plea on one of the charges, as part of a deal with prosecutors, the Post's Keith Alexander and Mike Wise report from D.C. Superior Court.

Senior Judge Bruce Beaudin on Monday agreed with the prosecutor's suggestion and sentenced Crittenton to one year of unsupervised probation and $1,250 in fines. Crittenton also agreed to begin a mentoring program to District children and work with the NBA on relief for Haiti earthquake victims.

Word from D.C. Superior Court is that suspended Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has entered a guilty plea to a single felony count of carrying a firearm without a license. City Paper's Mike DeBonis tweets that sentencing has been set for Mar. 26, and that prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence on the lowest end of federal guidelines, which in this case carry a maximum of 6 months. That doesn't mean that Arenas will spend six months in jail, though. It will be up to the judge to determine the amount of time he'll have to serve, and whether that sentence might be suspended. more ›

It's a breaking news kinda Wednesday, apparently. As best we can tell, Marc Steiner was actually the first person to report that embattled Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement reached with state prosecutors. The AP has since confirmed the news, noting that the mayor's resignation comes shortly after she entered an Alford plea today on a perjury charge. Dixon was convicted last month of embezzling gift cards that were supposed to go to needy Baltimore residents. The AP says the mayor's resignation is effective Feb. 4. more ›

Yusuf Acar, the former D.C. computer security official who was arrested and charged in March for his part in a bribery scheme that allegedly funneled phony contracts and pay checks through the District's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, is expected to plead guilty, the Examiner reports. more ›

That's the word from U.S. District Court this afternoon, where the Washington Post's Del Quentin Wilber was on hand for a brief hearing to set a trial date for Loza, the Jim Graham staffer accused of accepting cash and other gifts from a taxicab lobbyist. Writes Wilber: "Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb disclosed the existence of the plea offer during the hearing and said it would expire in two weeks. He declined to comment as he left the courtroom." Loza's attorney said he still needed to review the offer. more ›

The Post is reporting that Robert Hannah has indeed pleaded guilty on simple assault charges in the beating death of Tony Hunter. Word of a plea agreement in the case first leaked out two weeks ago, which prompted D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson to fire off a letter to Acting U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips, urging him to take the case to trial. The deal, it turns out, came about because Hannah was arrested for shoplifting last month for allegedly trying to steal items from an H&M, according to the Post. In exchange for his guilty plea, the shoplifting charge was dropped. Hannah's case has been controversial since the original charges against him were reduced from a felony to misdemeanor, based on his assertion that he only hit Hunter, a gay Maryland man, because Hunter sexually assaulted him before the attack. A friend of Hunter's who was with him at the time has maintained that Hannah's actions were unprovoked. Hannah will be sentenced on Oct. 14. He faces a maximum of 180 days in jail. more ›