As expected, a campaign aide to Mayor Vince Gray pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators about his role in a scheme to pay fringe mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown to stay in the 2010 race and attack Mayor Adrian Fenty.

Amid depressing news of two federal indictments of campaign aides to Mayor Vince Gray this week, at least one person has a sense of humor, albeit a dark one.

The day after an assistant campaign treasurer to Mayor Vince Gray’s 2010 campaign pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, another aide has been charged for making false statements to federal investigators.

Thomas Gore, a close friend and former assistant treasurer of his 2010 mayoral campaign, today pleaded guilty to steering money orders to the floundering campaign of fringe candidate Sulaimon Brown and then destroying evidence of the fact once federal investigators started looking into the allegations.