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Dec 09, 2009

Is Vince Gray’s Fence Turning into a ‘Gate?

Photo by mosley.brian If you’re following the ongoing saga of Vince Gray’s home improvement debacle, the Washington Times’s Jeffrey Anderson has filed yet another doozy. Apart from the more recent work supervised by William C. Smith & Co./WCS Construction, there’s also long been the question of the big metal fence that Gray had installed around his property in 2008. That work turns out to have been performed by Mid-Atlantic Deck and Fence Co., of…

Dec 02, 2009

Gray Voted to Award Smith & Co. City Contract in July

Photo by KCIvey The Washington Times just keeps hammering away at D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray. After reporting last month that Gray had some unusual repair work done on his Hillcrest home by mega-developer William C. Smith & Co., a company with a long list of city contracts that does not normally do such small jobs, today there’s this addition: Gray voted in July to award an $86 million contract to Smith & Co….

Nov 18, 2009

Vince Gray Has Had Better Days

Photo by KCIvey Tom already told you about Tim Craig’s story in today’s Washington Post, which outlines how D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray used council stationery to solicit a $20,000 contribution from Comcast to help pay for Democratic Party activities at last year’s national convention. But potentially even worse news for Gray also came today in the form of this story by Washington Times reporter Jeffrey Anderson, which alleges that some questionable work was…

 
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