in april and may 2011, the dc city council issued a subpeona to get brown to testify. brown hid from the people trying to give him the subpeona and went to court to fight having to testify. on may 31, 2011, the d.c. superior court order brown to testify before the d.c. council committee that was investigating this matter. on june 6, 2011, brown testified under oath that gray had paid him cash to keep in as a candidate in the primary race and had promised him a job. brown claimed that gray himself had ordered one of the payoffs. the city council probe showed that green, gray's chief of staff gerri mason hall and gray's personnel director judy banks gave gray's political allies city jobs. they did it in a way that did not pay attention to qualifications or laws.