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Washington, D.C., City Councilmember Trayon White is facing imaginable expulsion from metropolis enactment amid an ongoing corruption proceedings connected alleged bribery charges.
The FBI arrested White successful August 2024, alleging that helium took implicit $150,000 successful bribes to power the city's contracting. While the proceedings has yet to begin, the FBI revealed grounds showing White accepting envelopes afloat of currency from a bureau informant. The metropolis assembly volition ballot connected White's expulsion aboriginal Tuesday.
"This is quintessential corruption," Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said successful a December statement. "There is lone 1 remedy: to region the corruption from our body. This incidental has damaged the nationalist spot indispensable for authorities to relation well."
Despite the charges and grounds leveled against him, White was re-elected to the metropolis assembly successful November, conscionable 3 months aft his arrest. His national proceedings is acceptable to statesman successful January 2026. He has pleaded not guilty.
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"I consciousness assured that the radical of Ward 8 person spoken. I consciousness similar I’m going to triumph by a landslide but I’m inactive humbled and prayerful. I anticipation [it] sends a large connection to the D.C. Council astir keeping the decisions successful the hands of the people." White told WJLA connected Election Day aft results made it wide helium would win.
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White's expulsion would necessitate a unanimous ballot of the 11 different members of the metropolis council, and nationalist statements from councilmembers don't look bully for White.
"Councilmember White betrayed the spot of his staff, the council, the agencies and, supra all, the residents of Ward 8," Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, a Democrat, said astatine a preliminary proceeding past week.
Mendelson, besides a Democrat, echoed McDuffie's skepticism successful a statement.
"The nationalist [has to] person spot successful the government, they person to person spot successful the legislature, they person to person spot successful those who are elected," helium said.
Other members expressed anticipation that White would resign earlier the assembly is forced to instrumentality action.
"I privation helium would resign," said Councilmember Robert C. White Jr., besides a Democrat, according to the Washington Post. "If you broke the assembly rules, and you cognize you broke the assembly rules, to enactment the assembly done this is thing to deliberation about."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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