Washingtonpost.com comments on one of the Jack Johnson articles...Anyone have any further info? Could not find much via google, just Stan Parrish's obit.

"It sounds like Fairfax County in the 1960s when three sitting members of the Board of Supervisors were indicted for having accepted bribes.

One of the supervisors was a member of an old Fairfax family who gave its name to ----- Mill Road. Another was a graduate of the University of Richmond with a law degree from the University of Virginia, a school that takes considerable pride in its honor code.

Corruption is not endemic to P. G County."

"Officials subsequently called a federal grand jury to investigate if bribery was a factor in supervisor's zoning votes. On September, 20, 1966, the jury handed down twenty-four zoning bribery conspiracy indictments against fifteen county officials, developers, and zoning attorneys. Of those fifteen, eight were convicted, including [supervisor A. Claiborne] Leigh and his fellow supervisors Robert Cotton and John Parrish."

"Among those indicted was former Virginia state senator and zoning attorney Andrew W. Clarke."

--- The Fight For Fairfax, Russ Banham
pg. 58, 59

Robert Claude Cotten, JR.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40088-2004Dec31

John P. Parish
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303552.html

http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/392/392.F2d.344.11331.11347.11348.11352.11355_1.html

Completely off topic, but local history. One of the Keene's (of Keene's Mill) murdered another local (I think Lewis Hall, of Halls Corner). Hall's corner used to be what is present day Gambrill Rd./ Hooes Rd./ the Parkway. I'll look for a link if anyone is interested. They were drunk and got into a fight, resulting in Keene stabbing Hall. I had read somewhere a young girl being sexually assualted might have lead to the fight..

John Parrish Wrote:
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> Corruption is not endemic to P. G County."


You're correct. For most in politics, it's a matter of "if" and "when" they'll get caught. You don't think they take on those lowly public service salaries to get rich, do you? As another has stated before, politics is all about power. Along with the power will come greed. With the greed with come the desire to have more money with the power. And, you know the rest of the story.

Huntington Wrote:
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> Completely off topic, but local history. One of
> the Keene's (of Keene's Mill) murdered another
> local (I think Lewis Hall, of Halls Corner).
> Hall's corner used to be what is present day
> Gambrill Rd./ Hooes Rd./ the Parkway. I'll look
> for a link if anyone is interested. They were
> drunk and got into a fight, resulting in Keene
> stabbing Hall. I had read somewhere a young girl
> being sexually assualted might have lead to the
> fight..


True and the guy was stabbed at Keene Mill which was near the intersection of Huntsman blvd. and Old Keene Mill Road. Then he traveled to an out building located near Hidden Pond Nature Center where he later died of his injuries.

Farmer Keene's son, the murderer was incarcerated but escaped with all the other prisoners during the Civil War. He was never recaptured to be re-incarcerated after that point.