Lets stay focused people. He was not set up or framed. As a pp, mentioned, 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.

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Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

Then you were not high up enough. Many lobbyists pay for play on the Hill. That's what those coffee, lunch and dinners are about.

I was also a lobbyist. There are shenanigans with campaign contributions or donations to a charity associated with someone, as well as nice dinners and drinks. But 3% personal cuts of government contracts does not happen and there is no gray area there.

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Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

It's usually in the form of a cushy board position after their political career is over. Sometimes, it's board positions for relatives.

Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

Was U.S. Senator Menendez framed too? How about Rod Blagojevich? Duke Cunningham?

The FBI is adept at catching politicians of all stripes with their hands in the cookie jar. Most of them end up in jail.

There is nothing special about the allegations leveled at your boy Trayon.

Anonymous wrote:Still doesn’t justify holding him without bond and no access to legal council.

Council is what he sits on. Counsel is what he needs.

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Anonymous wrote:He is cooked. The FBI has him on tape accepting thousands of dollars in cash bribes from the head of a violence-interrupter group (this hopefully will be the end of the VI programs in DC, which have been a complete and utter failure).

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

What he did is not unusual for city politicians. He was just careless enough to get caught.

This is exactly what Trayvon, Charles and Brianne apologists think. It’s scary. It’s true

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

Then you were not high up enough. Many lobbyists pay for play on the Hill. That's what those coffee, lunch and dinners are about.

You think lobbyists are routinely giving members of Congress envelopes of cash for passing certain bills? That doesn't happen.
If you're saying lobbyists get performance bonuses, sure. But Trayon White isn't a lobbyist. He's a legislator.

Anonymous wrote:He is cooked. The FBI has him on tape accepting thousands of dollars in cash bribes from the head of a violence-interrupter group (this hopefully will be the end of the VI programs in DC, which have been a complete and utter failure).

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

What he did is not unusual for city politicians. He was just careless enough to get caught.

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Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

What? How do you know he was framed? The affidavit makes it sound like he was a guy who took a lot of money in bribes

Because PP is a crazy conspiracy theorist just like White.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

Then you were not high up enough. Many lobbyists pay for play on the Hill. That's what those coffee, lunch and dinners are about.

Those coffees and lunches and dinners are not about bribes that equal thousands of dollars. Totally different magnitude of money.

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Anonymous wrote:Bribery.

Violence Interrupters, the gift that keeps giving.

The grift that keeps on grifting!

This is much more an indictment of contracting in the District than the efficacy of violence interruption. DC hired someone who lied that they could do make such a program work and DC hired them because at least one public official was bribed to push for their hiring.

No I’m sorry but at this point, the defenders of “violence interrupter” programs are sounding like the ardent defenders of communism. “Well true communism has never been tried. What we had in the past wasn’t real communism.”

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Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

Then you were not high up enough. Many lobbyists pay for play on the Hill. That's what those coffee, lunch and dinners are about.

Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

I've worked on the Hill and I can't remember there being a 3% personal cut for legislation.

Anonymous wrote:Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.

What? How do you know he was framed? The affidavit makes it sound like he was a guy who took a lot of money in bribes

Trayon was framed. In any case, what he did is not any different than the government allowing "lobbyists" to reign in Capitol Hill.

If any of you ever worked on the Hill you would know this.

I hope his sentence is no more than 2 years.