Ex-bureaucrat pleads guilty to bribery

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A retired District of Columbia government building official pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that he tried to bribe a city official.

Former D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Engineer Yaw Agipong admitted in federal court that he promised to pay a D.C. construction inspector $2,000 to lift a stop-work order and reduce a $6,000 fine on a project in the 1100 block of Fifth Street Northwest.

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