Washington, D.C. council member, Trayon White Sr. was arrested in public on Sunday.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Fox News, the D.C. Democrat is facing federal bribery charges.
The 40-year-old who represents Ward 8 is chair of the Council’s Committee on Recreation, Libraries and Youth Affairs, which oversees several agencies including the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), according to a DOJ press release.
“The complaint alleges that, beginning in June 2024, White corruptly agreed to accept $156,000 in cash payments in exchange for using his position as a D.C. councilmember to pressure government employees at Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) and DYRS to extend several D.C. contracts,” the release states.
The contracts, valued at $5.2 million, were for two companies to provide violence intervention services in D.C.
“White’s agreement with a confidential human source (the owner of the companies) – including the source’s payments to White of $35,000 in cash on four separate occasions (June 26, July 17, July 25, and August 9, 2024) and the source showing White a document reflecting how White’s three-percent cut was calculated based on those contracts – was captured on video,” the DOJ stated, citing the complaint.
Court docs alleged White was “corruptly” given gifts that included travel to the Dominican Republic and Las Vegas, Nevada.
He was released on bond Monday on his own recognizance. The bribery charge carries up to 15 years in jail, up to a $250,000 fine or three times the amount of the alleged bribe, according to the judge.
White previously made headlines for his public anti-semitic comments where he accused the prominent Jewish banking family the Rothschilds of controlling the weather.
“And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We’re a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man,” he said in the now-deleted video. “Be careful.”
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Another “good” Democrat down.He is just doing what Democrats do,corrupt to the hilt.
More of the DC swamp amebas getting caught crawling out of the cesspool!!! DC needs a good old enema with a germicide to help clean up the contamination that’s growing there!!!
Why just him I wonder. Aren’t they ALL doing that? Corruption abounds.