Yet another new job for a prominent Fenty administration figure: former D.C. Attorney General and Fenty consigliere Peter Nickles will be returning to Covington & Burling LP as senior counsel. Nickles had previously worked at the firm for four decades and sued the District on numerous occasions.
Robert Hildum, the interim director of the city’s troubled Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services agency, has announced he will resign from the post. Hildum’s resignation will go into effect on December 17.
The District’s Attorney General, Peter Nickles, has drawn plenty of criticism for not being independent enough from the man who appointed him, Mayor Adrian Fenty. But just across the river, Virginians have had to deal with Ken Cuccinelli, the commonwealth’s elected attorney general whose aggressive stances against everything from climate change to health care reform to anti-gay discrimination to the state seal have made even Republican Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell slightly uncomfortable.
Just two weeks from now, D.C. voters will be asked to decide whether they’re rather maintain the status quo or elect the city’s top law enforcement official starting in 2014. In essence, they’ll have to decide if they’d rather have a Nickles or a Cuccinelli.
Peter Nickles Mayoral contender Vince Gray may not want to answer any questions on whether D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee would stay or go if he was elected, but he is clear on one thing — someone has to get rid of Attorney General Peter Nickles, and soon. In a press release issued by his campaign this afternoon, Gray called on Mayor Adrian Fenty to relieve Nickles of his duties: Unfortunately, it’s become increasingly…
Photo by Tracy Clayton The Examiner’s Michael Neibauer picks up on just the latest power struggle between the executive and legislative branches of the D.C. government: Mayor Adrian Fenty has decided he doesn’t have to follow the D.C. Council’s budget directive to put an end to the existing $19 maximum fare on all taxicab rides originating and ending inside the District. Once again, the move comes down to a legal opinion justifying the mayor’s…
The D.C. Council today gave final approval to a bill that would change the District’s Attorney General into an elected position, as the Post’s Ann E. Marimow reports. The vote came after the Council rejected an amendment offered by Ward 6’s Tommy Wells to instead transfer the powers of the U.S. Attorney’s Office to an elected district attorney. The bill as passed would not take effect until 2014, so it wouldn’t affect current AG Peter…
D.C. Auditor Deborah Nichols will be allowed “immediate, unrestricted access to approximately 1,000 boxes of documents” related to real estate deals that came out of the now dissolved National Capital Revitalization Corporation and Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, thanks to a settlement agreement announced Wednesday. Nichols had been battling in court with D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles over access to the files, since Nickles had argued that the auditor’s subpoena would place too big a burden on…
It’s been at least a few years since we had a good crackdown on any of the city’s “happy ending”-style massage parlors, but the wait is no more: D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has ordered five such businesses shuttered, as D.C. Wire reported last night. If you’ve been frequenting any of the “technicians” at Orange Spa (617 Pennsylvania Avenue SE), Star Spa (1829 M Street NW), or VIP Spa (719 8th Street SE &…
Oh, you thought that Mayor Fenty would actually be reimbursing the city for all that extra security he used while biking through Rock Creek Park back in November? District attorney general Peter Nickles says don’t be silly! “It has never been the practice of anyone serving as mayor of the District of Columbia to refund the cost of his or her security detail,” Nickles told the Council yesterday. Nickles also made sure to remind the…
Photo by LGography. Should the District’s early-out/easy-out retirement payments be considered a “bonus”? This is the debate in the latest chapter of the overarching tiff between the Fenty administration and the D.C. Council. The Examiner’s Michael Neibauer reports today that four District employees have been denied such exit payments by the Department of Human Resources, after the Council approved a 2010 budget which outlaws all “bonuses and special payments” to District employees. Employees enrolling…
