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Description: Washington, DC: Criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with bribery and conspiracy.

Brian Bailey, age 52,, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland and real estate developer, was found guilty of two counts of bribery and two counts of conspiracy. First, he was found guilty of giving thousands of dollars in bribes to a program specialist with the District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in exchange for confidential, un-redacted Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) offer of sale notices.

TOPA provides tenants living in the District of Columbia with the right to purchase their residence should the owner decide to sell the property. Under TOPA, tenants can re-assign their right to purchase to a third party. TOPA requires the owner (seller) to provide the District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development with offer of sale notices before the proposed real estate transaction. The offer of sale notices include, among other things, information not released to the public, such as the names of tenants residing at the property.

As a second part of the scheme, Paitsel and Bailey were both found guilty of one count of bribery and one count of conspiracy. Specifically, Bailey paid Paitsel bribes to look up the contact information of the tenants holding TOPA rights, which he did using a database he had access to as an FBI Agent.

The District of Columbia government employee, Dawne Dorsey, 40, pleaded guilty in June 2019 to a federal bribery charge for related conduct with Bailey.

This case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the District of Columbia Office of the Inspector General.

The trial of the case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elizabeth Aloi and John Borchert, with assistance from Paralegal Specialists Lisa Abbe and Quiana Dunn-Gordon of the Fraud, Public Corruption, and Civil Rights Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

18:371; CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES; Conspiracy.
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18:201(b)(1)(C); GRAFT AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST; Bribery.
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18:371; CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES; Conspiracy.
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18:201(b)(1)(C); GRAFT AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST; Bribery.
(4)

Outcome: Bailey was found guilty by a jury.

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