Hawkins said he delivered two envelopes containing $4,000 in cash on two separate occasions to a caterer who served as transportation coordinator for the GOTV effort.

According to a charging document filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Vernon Hawkins is accused of lying to FBI agents about sending a caterer out of D.C. so they couldn’t speak to federal agents.

The Post reports that Thompson illegally spent money on the campaigns of Linda W. Cropp and Patrick D. Mara.

Attention D.C. journalists, there’s a new media critic in town, and this one has the power to introduce legislation officially slamming your work.

A Philadelphia businessman pleaded guilty today to one misdemeanor count of violating campaign finance laws in an expanding federal probe of political donations made to federal and local D.C. lawmakers.

Barely hours after a former employee of alleged straw donation funder Jeff Thompson pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation, another Thompson associate is charged.

An associate of the former D.C. contractor Jeff Thompson pleaded guilty today to violating campaign finance laws in what federal prosecutors call a “straw donor” scheme.

Orange, who used to think of himself as “the best,” wants a retraction from NBC4’s Mark Segraves.

Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan introduced today new legislation they hope will bring a new sheen of legitimacy to a local political scene often confounded by scandal-laden campaigns.