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Washington Mayor Marion Barry was busted in a 1990 FBI sting, but there had been reports of his alleged illegal drug use and extramarital affairs for years.
Barry was arrested at the Vista International Hotel after he bought and smoked crack cocaine with a longtime lover who had become an informant against him. The FBI caught the whole event on tape, and a federal grand jury indicted Barry on a series of cocaine and perjury charges.
Despite the admission by Barry's own lawyer that the mayor had used drugs in the past, a deeply divided, racially mixed jury deadlocked on most of the counts, convicting Barry of a single misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession.
Barry was sentenced to six months in prison and lost his position as mayor and his city council seat. He won back a council seat in 1992 and was reelected mayor in 1994.
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