Former D.C. building official gets two months for bribe attempt

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A federal judge sentenced a former District of Columbia government building official to two months in prison for trying to bribe a former colleague.

Retired D.C. Department and Regulatory Affairs engineer Yaw Agipong told U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina that he was sorry and ashamed that he promised to pay a DCRA construction inspector $2,000 to lift a stop-work order on a project on the 1100 block of Fifth Street NW.

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