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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious to whose idea it was to record these meetings. Was this a set up, sting, an insurance policy or something else? [/quote]

It was an FBI sting. The person who was giving Trayon all that money himself was facing federal bank-fraud and bribery charges. He became an FBI informant and gave up Trayon to reduce his punishment. It's all in the arrest affidavit:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050966-trayon_white_arrestaffidavit

If anything good can come of this (beyond Trayon's hopeful resignation), it's the downfall of the violence interrupter programs, which have done jack squat to reduce crime in DC despite the millions that have been thrown at them, with almost zero oversight. Bribery issues like this are the result.[/quote]

A key point is that it seems that the payoffs predated the FBI investigation. The standard entrapment defense is unlikely to fly here. It will be interesting to see if others are ensnared.[/quote]

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