Thomas W. Gore, former assistant campaign treasurer to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D), has been has been charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying a spiral notebook that contained records of payments made to 2010 D.C. mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown.
Gore is charged with three counts of making a contribution in the name of another person and one count of obstruction of justice.
Gore, the feds said, “did knowingly destroy a record, document or tangible object, that is, a spiral notebook containing record of payments to Candidate B by Campaign A, with the intent to impede, obstruct, and influence the investigation of a mater within the jurisdication of the FBI, an agency of the United States, and in relation to and contemplation of such a matter.”
Neither Gray nor Brown, who was later given a position within the Gray administration, is named in the criminal information filed in D.C. federal court. Brown told the Washington Post that he reached a deal with Gray to be given a job if he continued his attacks on former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty.
