D.C. Councilman Marion Barry left a federal courtroom in mid-April following a hearing on his failure to file federal and local tax returns confident he wasn’t going to jail. Prosecutors, about an hour earlier, had dropped that request.
“The government can read the tea leaves,” the former mayor said at the time.
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