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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's son, Carlos, a "team captain" on his 2010 mayoral campaign and a business development and marketing coordinator at the D.C. Housing Authority, is no longer moonlighting as a "brand specialist" for a New York firm that represents top-shelf liquor labels, D.C. officials said.
While embattled D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray fights corruption allegations involving his 2010 mayoral campaign, his son, Carlos, has become entrenched in a party-boy lifestyle that apparently goes with his moonlighting job as a liquor "brand specialist" for top-shelf labels such as Ciroc vodka, Don Julio tequila and Nuvo sparkling vodka liqueur.
The director of a newly created city agency with control over the District's 30-million-square-foot real estate portfolio met privately last week with politically connected lawyers, lobbyists and developers despite D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's open-government policies and an ethics pledge he imposed on city officials to ensure transparency.
The director of a newly created city agency with control over the District's 30 million-square-foot real estate portfolio met privately Thursday with politically-connected lawyers, lobbyists and developers in apparent violation of longstanding open government policies proposed by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray.
Former head of the D.C. Housing Authority Michael Kelly will return to the District as the director of the Department of Housing and Community Development, replacing John Hall, Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced Monday.
![Gregory Williams, 48, left, surfs the internet as Fashad Tyler [cq], Program Coordinator for the D.C Housing Authority, right, assists Mary Wardrett [cq], 69, second from right, as she and other seniors living at Garfield Terrace in Northwest participate in a pilot course with an organization called Connected Living along with the D.C. Housing Authority to help teach older men and women basic computer skills and help navigate the internet, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Connected Living has 300 similar sites over 14 other states helping seniors in assisted living, independent living, memory care, and affordable housing. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)](http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2012/06/05/20120604-204149-pic-952506545_mugshot_four_by_three_s101x76.jpg?38f271e3d49cdfd5d0ef8cac5cad23b117d14f23)
It's the ultimate challenge in Internet dating - getting senior citizens hooked up with the Web. Connected Living is one company trying to teach seniors, many with limited Internet experience, how to log on, use social media and connect to families and the outside world.
From almost the first day that now-disgraced former D.C. council member Harry Thomas Jr. took office, his first priority was to conspire with others to obtain as much money as he could to indulge himself in such luxuries as golfing trips to Pebble Beach, Calif., a new SUV, an $18,000 motorcycle and designer clothes.
Federal regulators are asking the D.C. Housing Authority to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenses and say the authority has kept poor records on how it disbursed more than $18 million in public-housing vouchers, according to a new government audit.
Federal regulators are asking the D.C. Housing Authority to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenses and say the authority has kept poor records on how it disbursed more than $18 million in public-housing vouchers, according to a new government audit.
