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Former Gray aide Reuben Charles pleads guilty to tax charge | Former Gray aide Reuben Charles pleads guilty to tax charge |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Reuben O. Charles II, a Washington businessman and onetime aide to former mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal misdemeanor tax charge and admitted failing to file tax returns for 2010 and 2011. | |
He faces up to a year in prison. | He faces up to a year in prison. |
Charles, 46, through his attorney, estimated a loss to taxpayers of more than $40,000 in the case and argued that a sentence of 10 months was appropriate, according to a plea agreement with prosecutors. | Charles, 46, through his attorney, estimated a loss to taxpayers of more than $40,000 in the case and argued that a sentence of 10 months was appropriate, according to a plea agreement with prosecutors. |
[Former Gray aide indicted on tax charges] | [Former Gray aide indicted on tax charges] |
Prosecutors pegged the loss to the U.S. treasury at more than $100,000, and seek a one-year prison term. The government said Charles could also face a fine of $5,500 to $55,000 at sentencing, set for April 15 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington. | |
Charles is the eighth person with an association to Gray to be charged in federal court. All have pleaded guilty. | |
U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips in December announced the end of the years-long probe into the illegal financing of Gray’s 2010 campaign without charges against the former mayor. | |
[Probe ends without charges against former D.C. mayor Vincent Gray] | [Probe ends without charges against former D.C. mayor Vincent Gray] |
Charles managed Gray’s mayoral transition but fell out of the running for chief of staff in 2010 after publicity surrounding a series of lawsuits and liens from his time as a venture capitalist in St. Louis. | Charles managed Gray’s mayoral transition but fell out of the running for chief of staff in 2010 after publicity surrounding a series of lawsuits and liens from his time as a venture capitalist in St. Louis. |
Charles, a married father of two school-aged boys who moved to the District in 2007, became an information technology consultant to the D.C. government and Metro. He became a prominent fundraising conduit for Gray’s campaign. | Charles, a married father of two school-aged boys who moved to the District in 2007, became an information technology consultant to the D.C. government and Metro. He became a prominent fundraising conduit for Gray’s campaign. |
[ Campaign operative’s past looms large in his future with next D.C. mayor ] | [ Campaign operative’s past looms large in his future with next D.C. mayor ] |
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