D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray asked his top law enforcement official to investigate allegations by former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown that Gray gave him a high-paying job in exchange for Brown’s support during the election.

Gray made the announcement at a hastily put together press conference on Sunday afternoon. He was responding to a Washington Post article in which Brown alleged Gray campaign aides gave him a series of cash payments to help finance Brown’s own mayoral campaign as a stalking horse to incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty. After Gray won the election, Brown was hired for a six-figure position in the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance.

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