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   From: kamala@harris.helped   
      
        WASHINGTON – Trayon White Sr., the D.C. Councilmember representing Ward   
   8, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with bribery.   
   White, 40, 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).   
      
              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 contracts at   
   issue were valued at $5.2 million and were for two companies to provide   
   Violence Intervention services in D.C.  As alleged, the $156,000 White agreed   
   to accept in exchange for    
   using his official position to pressure renewal of those contracts to   
   particular companies was three percent of the total contract value.  According   
   to the complaint, 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 base   
    d on those contracts – was captured on video.   
      
              The arrest and charge was announced by U.S. Attorney for the   
   District of Columbia Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J.   
   Scott of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division, D.C.   
   Inspector General Daniel Lucas,    
   and Executive Special Agent in Charge Kareem A. Carter of the Internal Revenue   
   Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Washington, D.C. Field Office.   
      
              “Because the investigation into the alleged bribery scheme   
   involved contracts that could soon be awarded and other potential official   
   acts that could be taken, our Office took swift steps to address the alleged   
   crimes we were investigating,†  
   � said U.S. Attorney Graves.   
      
              This ongoing investigation is being handled by the U.S.   
   Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the FBI Washington Field   
   Office, the D.C. Office of the Inspector General, and the IRS Criminal   
   Investigation Washington Field Office.   
      
              A criminal complaint is merely an allegation and all defendants are   
   presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of   
   law.   
      
   Contact   
   USADC.Media@usdoj.gov   
      
   Updated August 19, 2024   
      
   https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/dc-city-councilmember-arreste   
   -bribery-charge   
      
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