The man at the center of the controversy surrounding Vincent Gray’s call for an investigation into the campaign that got him elected told The Washington Examiner on Sunday that he knows he has admitted to breaking the law. “Gray broke the law. I broke the law, too,” Sulaimon Brown said. Brown has accused the Gray campaign of giving him cash and offering him a job so he could stay on the mayoral campaign trail and attack Mayor Adrian Fenty, who was fighting for re-election.

Campaign finance records show that neither Brown nor Gray reported an exchange of money between their campaigns. If exchanges were made, both campaigns would have violated campaign finance laws. The Washington Post reported Brown’s accusation Sunday, citing phone records and text messages as potential evidence of deal making.