Golden Boy Promotions officials said a D.C. Council committee hearing billed as one that would air out the controversy surrounding the recent championship boxing bout in the District only made them more skeptical of doing business in the city.

“We constantly hear things about D.C. politics — rumors — and it’s never flattering,” Arnold Joseph, the attorney for Golden Boy told The Washington Examiner. “If you want to expand [private] business here you can’t have things like this happen. … You have to have transparency. And you have to make people believe that when you come, you’re not going to get home-towned.”