DCRA worker sentenced for shaking down firms

Published June 22, 2009 4:00am ET



A former D.C. Department of Consumer of Regulatory Affairs employee was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison for shaking down D.C. businesses.

Ikela M. Dean, a 32-year-old former clerk in the District’s construction licensing agency, was convicted in November of taking bribes in exchange for voiding bogus “late fees” against hotel projects in the city.

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