D.C. Council member Michael Brown, I-at large, expects voters to believe that he had no idea that $113,950 went missing from his re-election account. But given his own questionable behavior over the years, he has forfeited the benefit of the doubt.

Brown claims “unexplainable expenditures” were surreptitiously made by former campaign treasurer Hakim Sutton, whom he fired in June. Sutton’s attorney insists his client was just following orders from Brown. So somebody is not telling the truth, and Brown’s long record of evasion and deception suggests that somebody just might be him.