华盛顿——据法院记录显示，联邦法官周一宣布本轮审判无效，因为陪审团未能就华盛顿特区议会成员特拉扬·怀特的受贿案作出裁决。他被控收受一名关联人士的现金，并利用其民选职位帮助为对方的企业延长市政府合同。
WASHINGTON — A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the bribery case against a Washington, D.C., Council member accused of accepting cash from an associate in exchange for using his elected position to help extend city contracts for the associate’s businesses, court records show.
美国司法部检方计划重新审理此案。怀特对一项受贿罪指控表示不认罪，并否认违法。
Justice Department prosecutors intend to retry Trayon White, who pleaded not guilty to one count of bribery and denies breaking the law.
怀特的审判于9月15日开始。陪审团在连续数日听取证词后，于上周三开始商议。根据法院在线备案文件，美国联邦地区法官鲁道夫·康特雷拉斯在陪审团表示无法达成一致裁决后，宣布本轮审判无效。
White’s trial began on Sept. 15. Jurors began deliberating last Wednesday after hearing several days of testimony. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras declared a mistrial after jurors indicated they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict, according to online court filings.
美国联邦检察官珍妮娜·皮罗表示，怀特被拍到收取“大笔现金”，检方称这是15.6万美元贿赂的一部分。
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro noted that White was captured on video receiving “piles of cash” for what prosecutors said was part of a $156,000 bribe.
皮罗在一份声明中说：“请放心，我们会重新审理此案，并确保每一起腐败案件最终都有了断。”
“Rest assured that we will retry this case and every corruption case to verdict,” Pirro said in a statement.
怀特于2024年被捕，检方指控他收受贿赂，以换取向华盛顿特区工作人员施压，迫使市政府延长暴力干预服务合同。当局称，他们秘密录下了怀特与一名联邦调查局线人的谈话；该线人曾分四次向怀特交付共计3.5万美元现金。
White was arrested in 2024 on a charge that he accepted bribes in exchange for pressuring D.C. employees to extend city contracts for violence intervention services. Authorities say they secretly recorded conversations between White and an FBI informant who gave White $35,000 in cash on four occasions.
怀特被捕后，华盛顿特区议会其他成员一致投票将其逐出议会。但去年，他在特别选举中胜出，重新赢得因自己被逐出议会而空缺的第8选区议席。
Other D.C. Council members voted unanimously to oust White from the council after his arrest. But he won a special election last year to retake the Ward 8 council seat vacated by his expulsion.