WASHINGTON (AP) — Influential District of Columbia businessman Jeffrey Thompson has been charged with conspiracy.

The 58-year-old Thompson has long been suspected of funding what prosecutors called a $653,000 “shadow campaign” for Democratic Mayor Vincent Gray in 2010. He was charged Monday with conspiring to violate federal campaign finance laws and submit false filings to the Internal Revenue Service and conspiring to violate district campaign finance laws.

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