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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Twin Investigations: Teachers Union Money Scandal Meets the Mayors Petition Scandal NBC4 reports: "...The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia issued a subpoena Tuesday for financial documents from Mayor Anthony Williams' re-election campaign. A grand jury is investigating the mayor's petitions to put him on the ballot..." "The mayor told News4's Tom Sherwood Tuesday that there were some unexplained cash transactions in his campaign records."
"One key player in the petition probe is Gwen Hemphill, the mayor's campaign co-chairman until she resigned in the midst of another scandal. In that other scandal, Hemphill is being investigated for her role as a key figure in the Washington Teacher's Union. She and former president Barbara Bullock, as well as several others, are under investigation for the alleged theft of millions of dollars in union funds."
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