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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser, Evans and the developers vs. the city: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-member-jack-evans-increasingly-isolated-as-fbi-probe-advances/2019/07/05/a3a98f50-9e6c-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html[/quote]

So sleazy. And now the stink of it is on Maret, too.[/quote]

A more comprehensive account of Evans’ career and his dealings is here: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-washington-post-is-complicit-in-this-mans-corruption/. Does this sound familiar?:

"In 2007, Evans sought to give away a library and firehouse in his ward to developer buddy Anthony Lanier. In exchange for developing these highly valuable Downtown parcels, Lanier’s EastBanc agreed to construct a new library and firehouse, and to build housing on top of them (market rate above the quiet library, affordable units and a squash club above the noisy fire department). But public anger forced the Council to undo the sole-source deal, and it would take a full decade before Evans saw the project to completion. “If you’re persistent, you’ll either out-wait or out-live everybody and get the project done,” Evans said at the 2014 groundbreaking. Between 2016 and 2018, Lanier’s companies, EastBanc and Squash on Fire, paid Evans’ personal consulting firm $100,000. It’s unknown what services Evans provided in exchange for these payments."

So there's a pattern to Evans setting up these sole-source "PPPs" and, helpfully, a precedent of the DCC overturning them. It's a shame memories are so short in this town.[/quote]

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