Millicent West’s long fall from grace ended Friday when the former director of the D.C. Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management pleaded guilty to tax evasion in federal court. She had helped disgraced former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. use money from a nonprofit trust fund intended for poor at-risk children to pay for an inaugural party.

After multiple public denials, West finally admitted that she had knowingly provided the Internal Revenue Service with false grant documents between Oct. 2008 and Sept. 2009, while heading the nonprofit DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp.