mayoral candidate suleiman brown is scheduled to testify before a d.c. council committee investigating hiring practices by the gray administration. brown claims gray campaign aides promised him a job and paid him cash to stay in last year's race and level attacks against then incumbent mayor adrian fenty. surae chinn joins us live from outside the wilson building in northwest with a preview of what is a much anticipated meeting. >> reporter: good morning you have that right. suleiman brown had no problems speaking before, he was out spoken when he was abruptly fired making claims that he was paid to attack adrian fenty, then mayoral incumbent candidate. well, then just suddenly he stop talking. >> no comment. >> reporter: but now it's back on again, not by choice, but basically told by a judge last week that he would testify before a d.c. council committee. mayor vincent gray denies brown was paid anything or promised a job, only that he could interview for the position. >> i can't even imagine engaging in such reprehensible behavior. and i know absolute

suleiman brown says he has the proof.gave "the washington post" copies of checks and money orders that were given to him by member of vincent gray's campaign last year. vincent gray denies this. some residents say allegations of dirty politics continue to plague the nation's capital. >> i like to think of this as bacteria. you try to get rid of it but it just keeps coming back. >> suleiman brown says he will present his crew to the city council during a hearing today. he says he received money from the vincent gray campaign to attack adrian fenty during last year's mayoral campaign. this weekend he presented "the washington post" with several money orders that he says are claims. vince gingrey denies this. >> i think we're back where we were with marion barry. i think it has put a damper on this administration. i think it shaded this whole administration. >> other residents say this support may or gray while some don't know who to believe. >> as a citizen i don't know who is telling the truth. >> that hearing starts at 1:

are looking for two suspects. >>> months after his first allegations came out, this afternoon's suleiman brownpected to testify before the d.c. city council. brown has accused mayor vincent gray's campaign staff of giving him money and promising him a job in exchange for launching attacks on then mayor adrian fenty who was gray's opponent in the campaign. surae chinn is outside the wilson building, with more on the much anticipated event today. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mike. he was a d.c. employee who was abruptly fired. he then made claims of inappropriate hiring practices. he will face the d.c. city council committee this afternoon about these claims and he will reluctantly testify this afternoon. he had refused to testify before on the record until now. after he appeared before a judge last week, efforts to subpoena him, suleiman brown claims he was offered the $110,000 a year job in the department of health care finance if he would help the gray campaign. he says he has phone records to and from the gray campaign and live edges the gray campaign chairman lorraine green and

. >>> months after his allegations came out, suleiman brown is scheduled to testify today. brown accuses mayor vincent gray's campaign staff of giving him money and promising him a job in exchange for attacks on then mayor adrian fenty. >>> d.c. police are investigating an early morning shooting in northwest washington. it happened around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of l street and 7th street northwest. a man was shot once in the abdomen. police say it was an attempted robbery. the man's injury is serious and police are looking for two suspects. >>> fire investigators are searching for the cause of a late-night fire that occurred in southeast washington. the two-alarm fire began in a three-story apartment in the 5100 block of f street southeast. one person was transported from the scene with serious burns. they are expected to survive. >>> four people are being treated for injuries that they received in a montgomery county accident that occurred this morning. sky 9 was over the scene where several cars collided near the intersection of east-west highway and glen galen l

former mayoral candidate, suleiman brown talking with federal investigators are about his allegations that he was paid by gray's campaign to sling mud at then-mayor fenty and he was again a job after the elections as a quid pro quo. city council has been trying to get him to testify about those allegations. mary chase has been looking into the investigation's hiring and brown has been the missing piece of the puzzle. later today, he's expected to testify. brown says he has evidence of the payments. he's told "the washington post" that he has $600 in money orders made out to his own campaign coming from the gray campaign and they are part of pay-offs. it took a judge to compel brown to answer a subpoena from the council, though he has indicated that federal authorities have told him not to speak about certain aspects of the allegations. if brown does testify later this morning, it could end some questions for the city council but it still leaves questions out there being asked by federal investigators are. at the wilson building, derek ward, news4. >> also today the district attorneys