Howard Brooks, a consultant to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s 2010 campaign for the city’s top job, was charged Wednesday with lying to federal investigators.
In a criminal information, a type of legal filing that usually indicates that a plea is imminent, Brooks, 64, was charged with one count of making false statements.
In the filing, prosecutors wrote that Brooks lied when he told FBI agents that he never delivered any money to Sulaimon Brown, a fringe candidate for mayor.
Brooks is the second figure to be charged in the expansive probe of Gray’s campaign.
Thomas Gore, the campaign’s assistant treasurer, pleading guilty on Tuesday to four charges, including obstruction of justice.
Gore acknowledged that he helped orchestrate payments to the Brown campaign and that he had shredded a notebook containing records of the payments.
Gray has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
