Last week, Trayon White, a DC council member who became famous for spewing antisemitic musings about the weather, got a visit from the FBI. Just kidding. Federal agents hauled him off for undetermined charges at the time. Was it murder, sexual assault, or a host of other crimes that occurred in these Democrat-run hellholes? What he alleged he did was a crime, but nothing violent—and certainly nothing that we haven’t heard before from a politician.
Mr. White took bribes—a lot of bribes. It was nowhere near the amount of cash former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) took from foreign sources, along with gold bars, but it was a healthy $156,000 (via DOJ):
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 based 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.
There’s been some outrage, with editorials about where the government watchdogs are looking out for those defrauding the public. DC is single-party rule; this is what you get. The people of the district voted for this corruption enthusiastically. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that White’s “violence interruption programs” would be subject to review after the bribery charges.
In 2018, White said that the Rothschilds controlled the weather after it had snowed in DC. He later apologized but ducked a tour of the Holocaust Museum early and now got busted for taking $156,000 in bribes. Quite the career, huh?
