Sources for Dark Money Investigations

Sources for Dark Money Investigations

The vice mayor had even more Dark Money donations than the mayor. Black represented several of the dispensary applicants, but only one listed Black as an agent. Black donated $100 in his own name to the vice mayor. Another eight donations totaling $1,350 came from...
Coercion

Coercion

The July 28, 2021 FBI bulletin reveals that our mayor had been offered $100,000 in exchange for two dispensary permits in September 2017. Despite having been offered a bribe, (a felony offense), the mayor lobbied the council to grant the permits to his briber, even...
Bribery, Payola, and Pay the Piper

Bribery, Payola, and Pay the Piper

After serving as mayor, I was re-elected to the city council. Several credible sources, independent of one another, approached me with information of illegal Pay-to-Play schemes involving my city’s mayor and applicants for cannabis dispensary permits. I wasn’t...