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.”