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- After apparently outright lying to Politico, third White House crasher Carlos Allen now admits, through infamous D.C. attorney A. Scott Bolden, that he did indeed attend the Nov. 24 state dinner, but still denies that he wasn’t invited, Reliable Source reports. Verum Serum also finds that beyond Allen’s HUSH-themed ventures, it looks like he’s also behind one of those dubious “make $1000s working from home!” scams.
- Details of that first homicide of 2010, courtesy City Desk: at least two witnesses came forward to ID the assailant. Maybe 2010 is the year of “Start Snitchin’?”
- A Grand Jury is now hearing evidence on the Gilbert Arenas gun case, via Crime Scene. And helpfully, WUSA9 has a nice look at what usually happens to gun offenders in cases like these: a lot of them get to plead guilty and avoid jail time, but certainly not all of them.
- Got any weird antiques lying around? Antiques Roadshow, aka the best television program to fall asleep to, is coming to D.C., the WashBizJo reports.
- DCmud does a nice job detailing the generous property tax abatements handed out by the D.C. Council today to three big developers.
- And last but not least, D.C. Wire covers the Council’s preliminary vote today to approve a plan to make D.C.’s Attorney General an elected position. Key sentence: “… the decision, which still must reaffirmed with a second vote later this month, does not mean there will be an elected attorney general anytime soon.” Understatement of the year (so far), right there.
