The Post reports that Marion Barry has been cleared on charges that he broke city law by giving his ex-girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighhaupt a sole-source contract in 2009. Barry wasn’t cleared of all wrongdoing — Office of Campaign Finance director Cecily E. Collier-Montgomery’s order stated that “[d]isclosure of the relationship would have resulted in the transparency of the transaction and removed any cloud from the contract process,” and concluded that Barry still broke city guidelines for employee conduct. The Watts-Brighhaupt contract — and Barry’s ensuing arrest on stalking charges — was at the forefront of the investigation which eventually resulted in the Bennett Report and the censuring of the Ward 8 Councilmember.