A note to President Trump and DC Councilmember Jack Evans

-- "Former Baltimore mayor Catherine E. Pugh charged with wire fraud, tax evasion," Washington Post

As a State Senator and later as Mayor of Baltimore, Ms. Pugh sat on the board of the University of Maryland Medical System. UMMS and other entities which had business before Ms. Pugh bought lots of copies of her children's books. (UMMS also had self-dealing practices with other board members.)

It took awhile after this came out, but then she resigned as Mayor.  She's just been charged.

Not quite a "quid pro quo" along the lines of Ukraine vis a vis President Trump but close enough.

Similarly, DC Councilmember Jack Evans solicited business using his DC Council email address, and represented organizations with business before the DC City Council or the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, where he was a board member.

-- past blog entries using the keyword: corruption, and especially
-- "Wow! Revisiting DC's corruption Caucus," which is particularly good on local government issues

He hasn't resigned yet, although he agreed to step off the board of WMATA.  A recall petition has just been submitted.  And he hasn't been charged yet, although investigations are ongoing.