A lawyer directly involved in the case has confirmed that plea negotiations between Jeffrey Thompson and prosecutors are in the “final stages” and a plea deal could come as soon as Friday for the D.C. businessman believed to be behind an illegal shadow campaign for Mayor Vincent Gray in 2010. Federal prosecutors have been building the case against Thompson for about three years. He was named by others caught up in the scandal as the mastermind of a $650,000 off-the-books campaign undertaken on Gray’s behalf.
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