How long is DC Mayor, Vincent Gray, going to deny that there is no wrong doing within his administration? Are you tired yet of hearing rumor , upon rumor , upon accusation of misconduct within the Gray governing body? It's been four years since Gray was elected mayor to the District of Columbia and we're still hearing about wrongdoings dating back to his 2011 election campaign. The latest involves an alleged 'Shadow Campaign' constructed to pay off one Jeffrey Thompson , a former campaign constituent. USA Today reports , "Thompson admitted to setting up a $668,000 slush fund to aid Gray's 2010 campaign when Gray defeated then-Mayor Adrian Fenty by 10 percentage points. The existence of the "shadow campaign," as prosecutors called it, was no revelation — but Thompson went further, by telling prosecutors that Gray knew about the illegal funding and personally requested $425,000 to pay for get-out-the-vote efforts." In 2011, former mayoral...
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