He doesn’t think he did anything illegal, but Marion Barry has apologized for failing to use what he termed “good judgment” when he hired girlfriend Donna Watts-Brighthaupt under a personal services contract with his office, WRC/NBC4 reports. At a press conference this afternoon at the Union Temple Baptist Church, Barry insisted that there was “no violation of conflict of interest, there was a violation of law of good sense and law of sound judgment.”…

If you weren’t tuned in to Channel 13 this morning, you missed an extraordinary presentation by former Skadden attorney Robert Bennett on his findings from the ethics investigation into Ward 8 D.C. Council member Marion Barry. Bennett, alongside his associate, Amy Sabrin, today laid out in great detail how they found Barry had repeatedly violated ethics laws when he funneled city money to his personal friends and associates, including his former girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt….

Do make sure to check out the Washington City Paper’s latest update on the Marion Barry girlfriend contract saga, which reveals that a previous paramour of Barry’s, Sharon Bowen (she’s the one who lives in Ohio), had a job arrangement with the Ward 8 Council member that was remarkably similar to the one that Donna Watts-Brighthaupt did. Like Watts-Brighthaupt, Bowen was tasked to work in the area of poverty research. According to her personal-services…

While you’re busy wondering about Attorney General Peter Nickles’s political future, don’t forget our city’s other least trustworthy public servant! Reviving the local story that rocked early July, the Washington Post has obtained a bunch of old emails from the office of Ward 8 D.C. Council member Marion Barry, which show that Barry and his staff complained about the quality of the work his ex-girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, was doing for them at the time.Barry’s…

You don’t have to be a genius to have guessed that this might have been the case: Tim Craig reports in the Post that Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, the ex-girlfriend Marion Barry is accused of stalking, was hired by Barry as a contract member of his staff after they had struck up a romantic relationship. Barry has reportedly paid his former special lady friend at least $10,000 worth of taxpayer funds for her services as a…

We’ve joked in the past about how no jail can hold Marion “Mayor for Life” Barry, but so far this latest brush with the law for the current Ward 8 D.C. Council member really does appear unlikely to come to anything beyond more embarrassing headlines.