Aides Putting Office in Barry’s House
District of Columbia officials said Thursday they are putting an office in Mayor Marion Barry’s home so he can work there when he returns from substance abuse treatment in South Carolina.
The mayor’s spokeswoman, Lurma Rackley, said workers from the D.C. Public Works Department were turning a storage room in the basement of Barry’s southeast Washington house into an office.
The move will allow Barry to do much of his work at home rather than in his office at the District Building, thus avoiding media attention he is expected to attract as he awaits a scheduled June 4 trial on cocaine and perjury charges.
Maudine Cooper, the mayor’s staff director who came up with the idea, said she has not discussed the office plan with the mayor, but conferred with his wife, Effi.
Barry is expected to return by the end of the month from the Fenwick Hall substance abuse clinic near Charleston, S.C.
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