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Federal agents search Georgetown home of D.C. Council member Jack Evans
The FBI on Friday morning searched the Georgetown home of D.C. Council member Jack Evans, one day after a confidential memo became public saying he “knowingly” violated ethics rules to help friends and clients rather than serve the interests of the Metro transit agency.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the District confirmed the execution of a search warrant. “I can confirm that there is court-authorized law enforcement activity at Mr. Evans’s house,” said Kadia Koroma.
Samantha Shero, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said in an email: “The FBI is present for court-authorized law enforcement activity; we cannot provide further comment.”
Evans (D Ward-2) is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into his relationships with clients and questions over whether he used his official positions to solicit business for his private legal and consulting work. He runs a consulting company registered to his home address.
In addition to his elected position on the D.C. Council, Evans also is chairman of the Metro board. After the memo was reported Thursday, Evans said he would resign from the board.
The search at the townhouse in the 3100 block of P Street NW is public acknowledgment of the investigation into one of the most powerful politicians in the District.
Evans and his attorney didn’t return calls and text messages.
The Washington Post has reported that Evans’s private business dealings were the subject of a federal grand jury probe that was examining whether he used his legislative position to benefit clients of his consulting company. Evans had introduced bills, supported projects and pushed for tax incentives connected to his private clients as a city council member, The Post reported, citing emails and documents..
The grand jury has subpoenaed records from the D.C. government related to Evans and several of his private legal and consulting clients. Evans, who is also a lawyer, has acknowledged he created NSE Consulting, which he registered in 2016 at his Georgetown home.
On Friday, Evans walked into the house about 9:15 a.m. wearing a white T-shirt.
About 10 minutes earlier, his next-door neighbor, Kate Blackwell, said an agent told her Evans was waiting in a white car on the block while authorities searched his home.
“I heard pounding on the door at 6 a.m., and I woke up and I looked out and saw all these cars,” said Blackwell, who has known Evans since he moved to the house.
Eric Kametz, who lives on a nearby block, was walking his dogs before he paused to record a video on Instagram about being on site for his first FBI search. He once filmed himself confronting Evans for parking at an illegal spot, but said that issue pales in comparison to the recent ethics allegations against the council member.
Authorities started leaving Evans’s house about 9:20 a.m., loading up cars with boxes. Mark Tuohey, an attorney for Evans, entered the house at 9:26 a.m. and declined to comment to reporters.
On Thursday, Evans announced he would resign as the District’s representative on the Metro board. That came hours after The Post published a confidential 20-page memo from an outside law firm that investigated Evans for the board’s ethics committee.
It is unclear whether Friday’s search of his home was related to Evans’s work on the council, with Metro or both.
A confidential memo obtained by the Post and written by the outside law firm for Metro’s ethics committee listed a series of transgressions that included failures to disclose his consulting and personal relationships, and to recuse himself from Metro “transactions, discussions and issues” where he had a potential conflict of interest.
“Our investigation uncovered a pattern of conduct in which Evans attempted to and did help his friends and clients and served their interests, rather than the interest of [the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority],” the memo said. “The evidence uncovered through our investigation demonstrates that Evans’s ethical violations occurred not by accident, but ‘knowingly.’ ”
Evans “solicited and accepted money” from people who were “actual or potential WMATA vendors, with business interests that intersected with WMATA interests, and could be served by certain actions or decisions of WMATA or its Board,” the memo said.
Robert McCartney, Steve Thompson, Dana Hedgpeth and Laurel Demkovich contributed to this report