Councilmember Trayon White faces new allegations as voters head to the polls in Ward 8 [View all]

WASHINGTON — Ousted DC councilmember Trayon White is in hot water once again. A Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) violation notice sent last week accuses White of failing to file the two financial disclosures for his last year in office.

White was arrested in August 2024 by the FBI for allegedly accepting more than $150,000 in kickbacks in exchange for securing city contracts. He still won his reelection campaign in November, but in February, the council voted to expel him. The new information comes as the special election to fill his empty council seat — which he himself is running for — begins Tuesday.

BEGA said White did not submit his last two legally required public financial disclosure statements. D.C.'s Ethics Act requires public officials to file two financial disclosures a year: one for the first half, due Nov. 15, and one for the second half, due the following May 15. Despite repeated reminders mailed to him, the violation notice said he still did not submit.

Reminders were sent Oct. 15, Oct. 29, Nov. 7, Nov. 13 and Nov. 15 to file for the period of Jan. 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024, but BEGA writes that he never submitted it at all. Then, though he had already been ousted from the council, he was still required to submit a disclosure for the second half of the year, as he was still in office during the period of July 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024. Reminders again were sent April 15, April 28, May 2 and May 15, and yet, again, he did not file, BEGA said.



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