What happens if mayor gray resign

He has not been arrested or charged with anything, and the city has said there's nothing to indicate the investigation has anything to do with city finances. In , it was discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars raised from the sale of municipal bonds by the city of Gulf Breeze were doled out as charitable donations from a pair of public agencies under the control of Gray and with very little, if no, oversight.

The revelation led to the city tightening its grip on control of how the charitable donations were made. In addition to Eugenia "Jeanne" Clarke Harris, the public-relations executive who pleaded guilty Tuesday, two other campaign aides have pleaded guilty to funneling money to a minor mayoral candidate and conspiring to cover up the payments. The candidate, Sulaimon Brown, was paid to stay in the race and continue making negative comments about Fenty, the aides said. Brown was later hired by the Gray administration, although he was fired after less than a month.

Gray has said he was unaware of the payments and did not promise Brown a job. Asked if he was corrupt, Gray said: "There are lots of people who probably will have that question. I know who I am. I get up in the morning every day and look in the mirror and I see somebody I respect.

Although the name of Harris' co-conspirator was not revealed in court, two people familiar with the investigation have told The Associated Press that the businessman accused of funding the shadow campaign is Jeffrey Thompson, a partner in an accounting firm who also owns a managed-care provider that is the city's largest contractor.

The individuals spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information. Gray did not directly answer a question about whether Thompson handed him checks, but he said no candidate could be expected to personally vet every contribution. Harris also pleaded guilty to conspiring to make straw contributions and said her co-conspirator would "bundle" the checks and hand them directly to candidates he supported.

Vincent Gray is the latest D. More Videos Another D. Story highlights Gray faces heat over investigation into his campaign funding Other Washington mayors have been the subject of investigation Most widely known is Marion Barry, who served time on a drug charge. Mayor Vincent Gray knew in January that members of his staff had not properly reported funds raised for his campaign, according to a source close to a federal investigation into his campaign funding.

When Jeanne Clarke Harris, a public relations consultant, told Gray in a meeting that she had not reported all the expenditures from the campaign, the mayor instructed her to report them right away, the source said.

Harris pleaded guilty this week to helping orchestrate a secret campaign on Gray's behalf. The allegations have led three of Gray's former colleagues on the Washington council -- David A. Catania, Mary M. Cheh and Muriel Bowser -- to call for his resignation, while also writing the next chapter in what has been a long history of political scandal coming from Washington's mayoral office.

Three of the last four occupants of the office have been stung by ethics questions ranging from crack cocaine use and possession to campaign finance violations.

She said the scandal "has caused incalculable harm to the district. On Wednesday in his first public statements since Harris' revelations, Gray said, "This is not the campaign that we intended to run. But on Thursday, Gray said he had no plans to resign.