D.C. City Councilman Trayon White has been charged with bribery for allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars in undisclosed kickbacks and cash payments, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Monday.

The legislator, who suggested in 2018, that Jewish bankers control the weather, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly agreeing to accept $156,000 in bribes in exchange for lobbying officials from the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) and the Department of Community Services. Youth Rehabilitation (DYRS) of DC to expand several lucrative government contracts for violence prevention programs, seconds to an arrest affidavit from the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the time of his arrest, White had allegedly received four cash payments totaling $35,000 from a confidential source, with the FBI capturing video of the source explaining to White how his cut of the contracts was calculated .

“What do you need me to do, man? No, I don't want to feel like you have to give me something to get something. Better than that,” White told the confidential source when presented with an envelope containing $15,000 in cash, according to the affidavit.

Trayvon White, the indicted Ward 8 city councilman, leaves DC federal court a day after he was arrested by the FBI for allegedly taking $156,000 in bribes. pic.twitter.com/ZhuCMuKqwS

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The contracts, which were for two companies, were valued at $5.2 million, seconds in the press release. White allegedly agreed to accept 3% of the contract value.

Before the cash bribes, the FBI alleges White accepted trips to the Dominican Republic and Las Vegas, Nevada from a confidential source, according to the affidavit.

“Because the investigation into the alleged bribery scheme involved contracts that could be awarded soon and other possible official acts that could be conducted, our office took swift action to address the alleged crimes we were investigating,” said the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew M. Graves, said in the press release.

White posted a video on Facebook in 2018 reacting to a snowfall in Washington DC in which he suggested that Jewish bankers control the weather.

“Man, it started snowing this morning out of nowhere, man. You better pay attention to this climate control, man, this weather manipulation,” White he said in the video “And DC keeps talking about, 'We're a resilient city.' And that's a model based on the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters that they can pay to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

That same year, White given $500 for a Nation of Islam event where Louis Farrakhan, the organization's leader, described Jews as his “enemies.”

White is due back in court Sept. 19 on NBC Washington informed.

The FBI's Washington field office declined to comment. Trayon White's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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