The D.C. inspector general and the attorney general’s offices are looking into allegations of ethical violations by the chairman of the alcohol board as they search for a cause to fire him, several sources with knowledge of the proceedings said. The two investigative bodies join the mayor’s office, which has been looking at accusations leveled against Chuck Brodsky that he gave favor to a liquor wholesale company after it hired an attorney who is his friend. New allegations into the alleged ethical breach by Brodsky and attorney Emanuel Mpras led to the expanded inquiry, some source told The Washington Examiner.
But it may also be the product of a political push to get Brodsky out of office. When former board member Mital Gandhi charged Brodsky with pushing through a regulation change favoring the wholesale company represented by Mpras, Gandhi might also have given the Vincent Gray administration the dirt it wanted to rid the city of an alcohol board chairman who has angered some community groups.
