We’ve been busy since yesterday reading through the full 107-page report, prepared by Special Counsel Robert Bennett, on the findings of his investigation into alleged ethics violations by D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8). While you’ve already read the gist of the report’s biggest revelations, there’s plenty more material in there that shouldn’t go unmentioned. So we’ve excerpted some of the most revealing passages below:

• Page 12: “Mr. Barry’s Narcotics Anonymous sponsor received a total of $16,465 from two grantees.”
• Page 24: “… between FY2005 and FY2009, Council Member Barry was responsible for more spending on personal services contracts than all of the other Council Members combined.”
• Pages 34-35: “Ms. Watt-Brighthaupt’s performance under the contract does not appear to have provided value commensurate with the sums she received because significant portions of the deliverable she prepared for Council Member Barry were copied nearly verbatim from a 1997 U.S. Department of Education survey. … Nonetheless, in justifying the personal services contract, Council Member Barry testified that Ms. Watts-Brighthaupt ‘produced a quality product’ that was worth ‘two or three times what we paid for.'”
• Page 55: (Regarding the Ward Eight Councils) “Special Counsel found, however, that all of the Articles of Incorporation submitted to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (“the DCRA”) for these organizations contained signatures that were falsified, and that the documents were not properly notarized.”
• Page 58: “On September 18, 2008 — at the direction of Council Member Barry — Rev. Anthony Motley executed checks payable to the D.C. Treasurer from the account of the Marion Barry Scholarship Fund (“The Fund”) to cover the cost of incorporation fees for the Ward Eight Councils. Council Member Barry’s Office Manager, Donna Rouse, who was an officer of the Fund, advised that the money in the fund had been raised at an event sponsored by D.C developer, Herbert Miller, for the purpose of providing scholarships to District students.”
• Page 68: “Finally, according to Ms. [Sharon] Wise, during the period when she was a recipient of grant funds, Council Member Barry frequently requested sexual favors, but she did not comply. Council Member Barry refused to answer questions regarding the nature of his relationship with Ms. Wise.”
• Page 71: “Rev. Motley admitted that he manufactured supporting documentation for certain grantee expenses — in some instances, after receiving Special Counsel’s document subpoena.”
• Page 75: “Special Counsel also observed that an inherent feature of the earmark process is the mutual support between the Mayor and Council, and among the Council Members themselves, for each other’s earmarks.”
• Page 84: “The evidence available to Special Counsel supports the conclusion that Council Member Barry attempted to dissuade Ms. Watts-Brighthaupt from providing relevant, material information to Special Counsel and complying fully with a subpoena duces tecum demanding documents relevant to the Council’s Investigation. The evidence further indicates that Mr. Barry may have actually succeeded in doing so and thereby deprived Special Counsel of material evidence and investigative leads.”