Since January, Sulaimon Brown has been the center of attention. After his failed mayoral bid, Brown landed a high-paying job at the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance. Quickly dismissed by the Gray administration, he’s since alleged that he was paid to talk smack about Mayor Adrian Fenty during the 2010 campaign and has otherwise drawn attention to the sketchy hiring practices of some of Gray’s closest confidantes.
But for everything he may know, Brown hasn’t been willing to talk to anyone outside of the FBI and the local media. Despite repeated requests that he appear before a D.C. Council committee looking into the hiring practices, Brown not only refused to testify, but also evaded a subpoena that would compel him to do so. (Council staffers literally chased him out of the Wilson Building last month to try and serve him, to no avail.) Brown has become somewhat infamous for showing up when media gathers for a big story, but still managed to avoid the process servers sent by the council.
This week, however, the Council passed emergency legislation that would impose serious consequences if Brown and others continued to refuse to testify. Brown’s now scheduled to appear before the council on June 6, and if he doesn’t, he runs the risk of 180 days in jail or $1,000 in fines.
So will he show? We’ll have to wait until June 6 to see — but our crack team of investigators has uncovered a fairly damning record of where Brown has been for the last few months.
[Obviously, all the photos above are satirical in nature: we don’t actually have evidence that Brown has been hanging out in the Mushroom Kingdom or with legendary Nordic superheroes.]
Martin Austermuhle