DC’s Taxicab Commission Chairman Fired

(Washington, DC)  —  DC is looking for a new chairman of the city’s taxicab commission.  Earlier this week Leon Swain was fired after almost four years on the job.  Swain says he wasn’t really given a reason, but tells the “Post” he thinks it has to do with politics.  More specifically, he says it was a payoff to cab owners upset about a federal bribery investigation.  Swain tells the “Post” some DC cabbies straight up told him they demanded Mayor Vincent Gray fire him as a condition for their support of him during last year’s campaign.  One cab driver even says the firing of Swain is one of three promises Gray made to cab drivers.

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