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Tomorrow, Sulaimon Brown will finally testify in front of Mary Cheh’s Council committee on government operations. And there’ll be something new to talk about: the Post’s Nikita Stewart reports that while preparing for his testimony, Brown located the money orders he claims the Vince Gray campaign gave him to disparage former mayor Adrian Fenty during last fall’s election.

Brown made available copies of five money orders to the Post — totaling more than $600 and made out to “Sulaimon Brown for Mayor” — that he claims he received from Gray campaign worker Howard L. Brooks as a portion of money promised to Brown in exchange for his help on the campaign trail. (Brown has also alleged that he was promised a job in exchange for the help, though that has not yet been conclusively proven by anyone.) Reports Stewart:

Brown made the documents available to The Washington Post after the newspaper found that Brown campaign records possibly listed three friends or relatives of the Brooks family as alleged contributors. Brown said the money orders contained signatures and addresses that his campaign tried to decipher when it recorded the contributions, but campaign finance reports show misspelled names and incomplete addresses.

After researching the documents, The Post found the following apparent links: a $225 donation from Brooks’s son, Peyton; $100 from Litonya Livingston, who said she is Peyton’s girlfriend; and $335 from Aundrea Naylor, a cousin to Howard Brooks’s wife.

Brown also told the Post that he received some blank money orders; all of the individuals whose names were on the money orders either categorically denied involvement or refused to comment on the donations. (There is an ongoing federal investigation into the ordeal.) Brooks and his son, Peyton, who was also hired after Gray won the election, have been called to testify in front of the Council as well, but both have invoked the Fifth Amendment. The Council has attempted to compel Peyton Brooks’ testimony through court channels.

So let’s buckle up, folks — the Sulaimon scandal just had some fresh gas thrown on the fire. Cheh’s committee will convene at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Wilson Building; Brown will testify after Cherita Whiting, a Ward 4 activist who was hired to a “special assistant” postition in the Department of Parks and Recreation and accused of engaging in a similar “quid pro quo” arrangement with the Gray campaign.