Howard Brooks pleads guilty in probe of Mayor Gray’s 2010 campaign
(Matt McClain / FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)
The campaign aide became the second person to tell a federal judge he helped secretly pay a fringe mayoral candidate to level verbal attacks against incumbent Adrian M. Fenty.
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