Mayor Vince Gray’s former chief of staff Gerri Mason Hall testified that she didn’t “pay attention” to an e-mail containing background information on Sulaimon Brown.
But a copy of the e-mail obtained by The Washington Examiner shows that Hall “flagged” the e-mail sent from Gray for Mayor Chairwoman Lorraine Green’s private e-mail account and marked as an e-mail for a “follow-up.”
Hall’s attorney Kenneth Wainstein did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Green sent the e-mail on Jan. 27 , four days before Brown started working at the department of health care finance on a $110,000 annual salary. Brown claims Gray promised him a job so Brown, a former mayoral candidate, would stay on the campaign trail and attack then-Mayor Adrian Fenty.
In the e-mail, Green wrote “Gerri… FYI…SEE ATTACHED.”
The attachment pasted into the e-mail’s body and detailed Brown’s credit history, which was dug up by Kenneth V. Cummings of The Capitol Group – the company hired by Gray’s transition team to do background checks on potential hires.
Cummings wrote that Brown had five accounts in collection. Two with the Senate Federal Credit Union totaling more than $27,000 and others that collectively amounted to about $5,000. In 2004, Cummings wrote, a mortgage of $225,000 that Brown shared with an “unknown individual” was paid off. “His payment history is rated as poor,” Cummings wrote.
