Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Council Member, Michael Brown, the son of ron brown the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I personally dont think so. I have been covering politics for a long time. I actually covered politics in new jersey before i came to the District Of Columbia. So i dont think any more corrupt than any other place. But the interesting thing about d. C. , remember, it is not a state. It is a city
Jeffrey thompson. Why . Our local businessman at the center of major federal investigation and no one really knew who we was. So i basically told my editor i want to write the definitive profile of Jeffrey Thompson. When people want to know about him, they want i want them to refer back to this article. What we want to know about him . Right now, he is the center of d. C. Politics and some folks say he is actually at the center of d. C. All addiction basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 22 million year. And no one really knew who he things came to light the011 over problems with current mayors. The current Mayors Campaign in 2010. We have one former city councilmember, the son of ron brown, the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all that stuff you all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I d