Several hours before sunrise on Friday, November 5, 1999, Mark Johnson entered Federal Building 3 in Suitland, Maryland, and went inside the ground-floor offices of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. The previous evening, a subordinate had called Johnson, one of the board’s two executive directors, with the news that five badge-bearing federal agents had shown up at the office just before closing time and
Tony Coelho, the chairman of Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign, did not report a now-controversial $300,000 personal loan on a federal financial disclosure report that he signed on June 11, 1998, the Center for Public Integrity has learned. The Center obtained the financial disclosure form as part of its investigation into Coelho’s activities as the U.S. commissioner general
On May 11, praising “his leadership skills and strategic vision,” Vice President Al Gore named Tony Coelho general chairman of Gore 2000, his presidential campaign organization. “Tony has been a great leader in every endeavor he has undertaken — government, business, and as an advocate for the disabled,” Gore said in the news release announcing the appointment. The release