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Captions by vitac i was smiling [ chuckles ] thats my smile. Proposedanges being captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Topping our news at 11 00, a winter warmup. Lots of bundling up tonight but that is about to change. The temperatures could be in the 70s. Doug hill is in the Weather Center with more on that. It will be close to 70. It is possible to be in the low 70s in spots. We will show you where we are at the moment. 35 in the district, 25 in bethesda. We are going to keep on dropping. We get a lot of encouragement looking at t...

Ignores questions about the Shadow Campaign for Hillary Clinton. Did you know anything about the Shadow Campaign for Hillary Clinton when you were chairman . And about the money his campaign received from now convicted felon Jeff Thompson. Will you return that money, sir . I knew nothing about the elicit activity that has now been alleged. All three of my opponents have taken money from Jeffrey Thompson. Muriel, youve taken a ton of checks from him. People who are supposed to be leaders are pointing their fingers at each other. Thats not what the residents of the district of columbia want. Ton...

The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the camp...

Mayor vincent gray knew of the scheme to funnel illegal money into the Shadow Campaign before gray ever announced that he would run for office. He says that gray agreed to call him uncle earl to keep his identity a secret, and he said that during the campaign, gray personally asked thompson for 400,000 in cash for efforts to get out the vote. And thompson told the judge that he gave 10,000 to a Family Member of vincent gray and additional 40,000 to a close friend of vincent grays for home improvement. In addition to all of the money that was funneled to mayor gr grays campaign, thompson admitt...

In the courtroom, he said that d. C. Mayor vincent gray knew of the plan to fund a Shadow Campaign before he was running. Gray says that he personally asked him for an an additional 400,000 in the campaign, and then helped thompsons company to receive a settlement when his office was won. And so they agreed to refer to thompson only as uncle earl a code name. Jeffrey thompson admitted to illegally financing multiple campaigns, including 6,870 to a president ial candidate, and 250,000 to 13 candidates for federal office. And also here in d. C. , 100,000, to 2008 Council Candidate, and 20,000 to...