D.C. Council chair still has old constituent services fund

D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown has held onto his old constituent services fund — called council “slush funds” by some — after he became chairman and has even received donations as he has repeatedly said he doesn’t have such a fund.

Council members are allowed to raise $80,000 a year in private donations for their individual constituent services funds, which are treated as supplemental budgets. They can legally spend the dollars on nearly anything they want and expenses run the gamut from funeral services to sporting event tickets.