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E4 VA EE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17 , 2016 BY MARK GUARINO Irvin Mayfield made his Carne- gie Hall debut in October 2012, and it was quite a star-studded affair. Dignitaries spoke, guest stars such as Aaron Neville ap- peared alongside the young trum- peter, and even CNN’s Soledad O’Brien emceed. For a local boy growing up in New Orleans, the achievement was undeniable. Even local station WWOZ marked the occasion by broadcasting the concert live for hometown listen- ers. Yet the performance had a price tag: more than $20,000 before travel, production and talent costs, which could reach up to tens of thousands of dollars. The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), Mayfield’s nonprofit organization, rented the venue, according to Michael Tomczak, a Carnegie Hall spokesman. Mayfield threw the party, it appears, for himself. The lavish spending during this time by NOJO has made the Gram- my-winning trumpeter the target of a three-year federal probe fol- lowing media reports that showed how he and business associate Ronald Markham directed more than $1 million from a private foundation tasked to aid the city’s beleaguered public library system to NOJO, where both men have drawn six-figure salaries. The situ- ation has enraged the city’s philan- thropic community and shrunk library donations. A financial au- dit released late last year shows that NOJO paid Mayfield’s pro- duction company hundreds of thousands of dollars. An account- ing of where and how money was spent was practically nonexistent. In an emailed statement to The Washington Post, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Mayfield owes the city an apology, calling the shifting of funds from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation to NOJO “improper and a serious breach of trust.” “While an agreement is in place to reimburse the Library Founda- tion in part, this scandal has sub- stantially damaged the Library Foundation’s brand, its endow- ment and its relationship with the New Orleans Public Library Sys- tem. Ultimately, kids lost out,” Lan- drieu said. In the years after the devasta- tion wrought by Hurricane Ka- trina, Mayfield, 38, branded him- self his city’s ambassador, per- forming benefit concerts, meeting presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, playing presti- gious stages throughout the world, and earning a seat on the National Council on the Arts. He also sold his name and likeness to Bourbon Street’s Royal Sonesta Hotel, which opened Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, a namesake club his team started booking in 2009. “Irvin was at the forefront of taking our story nationally and even globally, and that mattered,” said City Council member LaToya Cantrell. “He played a critical role in showing that New Orleans needed to rebound and its own people were spearheading that growth. You can’t take that away.” Mayfield’s fall from grace re- sults from the usual hubris of ce- lebrity, but in this case it was also enabled by the city’s infamous lais- sez-faire attitude. Mayfield and Markham, also childhood friends, were subject to little to no over- sight from board members of the Library Foundation and NOJO. Part of the reason was Mayfield’s charm and talent, but another rea- son was because many of the peo- ple tasked with policing the foun- dation had conflicting interests as well. “He plays their private parties, he plays their bar mitzvahs. For those people to go on record and admit they were wrong means they would have to take a long hard look in the mirror to say, ‘This guy got one over on me,’ ” said a music industry executive who asked not to be named for business reasons. “What made them give this guy a pass? I think they now have the self-awareness that they [messed] up big time.” A federal probe The scandal first erupted last year when WWL-TV, a CBS affili- ate, revealed that Mayfield and Markham rewrote the bylaws of the Library Foundation board so they could divert funds to NOJO. Last month, WWL further re- vealed that Mayfield spent $18,000 of foundation money on a five-night trip to New York in 2012. According to a foundation audit in May, he billed the foundation for rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, meals, liquor, limousine rides and a single breakfast costing $1,400. “There was nothing that sug- gested [the trip] had anything to do with the Library Foundation,” said Bob Brown, president of the foundation’s board. In May, the foundation sent repeated letters to Mayfield and his attorney de- manding immediate payment; the first two letters were returned un- opened, Brown said. Mayfield and Markham stepped down from the board, and this month, Mayfield resigned his post as NOJO’s artistic director. NOJO has not admitted wrongdoing, but in May it worked out a voluntary agreement with the foundation to return $483,000 in installments stretching into May 2021. NOJO also pledged to raise the rest of the $1.1 million through benefit con- certs. But it is questionable wheth- er Mayfield’s drawing power is strong enough to eliminate the def- icit and whether he will perform with the group at all since he cut ties with NOJO this month. “The deal will never be paid back, because Irvin’s concert fees are not comparable to that pay- ment plan, ” said the music indus- try executive. In June, a citizens group, Make NOJO Pay, erected a billboard one block from NOJO headquarters to raise public awareness and demand full repay- ment. “I do not believe that I have violated any law,” Mayfield said on his Facebook page July 5. He declined to be interviewed for this story. Sources told The Post that the U.S. attorney for New Orleans launched an investigation in June 2013. Brown confirmed that the agency subpoenaed attorneys working with the foundation. Ra- fael Goyeneche, a former state’s attorney for Louisiana who heads the Metropolitan Crime Commis- sion, a nonprofit organization ex- posing white-collar crime and public corruption, said the case started when a whistleblower con- tacted the group in May 2013; he then brought the allegations to the U.S. attorney. “The fact that an investigation is still active three years after our initial referral indicates that they have found violations. There is a strong likelihood that criminal wrongdoing was found,” Goye- neche says. New bylaws, new powers Many of the city’s philanthro- pists described Mayfield as active- ly courting them to get on boards of some of the city’s most presti- gious institutions with the inten- tion, they said, to get them to eventually steer their money toward his personal projects, par- ticularly the New Orleans Jazz Market, a $10 million facility that would serve as NOJO’s headquar- ters. His biography during this period swelled with honorary uni- versity degrees, board appoint- ments and artist-in-residence honors. By last year, Mayfield sat on at least a dozen boards. Mayfield got the library honor in 2007 through Daniel Packer, vice chairman of NOJO, who ad- vised then-mayor Ray Nagin to appoint the trumpeter chairman of the Library Foundation’s board of directors. Soon Mayfield not only headed the Library Founda- tion board, but also the library system as well, putting him in administrative control of the li- braries and their endowment. He ousted top librarians and even- tually the director of the Library Foundation. In a 2009 interview with Offbeat, a local music maga- zine, Mayfield shrugged off critics, saying, “I challenge people to stop questioning why I’m doing things and start questioning what they’re doing to improve the city.” Under Mayfield, two-thirds of the foundation board seats were eliminated. There were conflicts at the start: One of the board’s new members was Markham, also the chief executive of NOJO. Another member was Dan Forman, the son of Ron Forman, a local power bro- ker who happens to be chairman of NOJO’s board. Then, in June 2012, the new board voted to grant sweeping powers to Mayfield, giving him the right to “sign any and all acts, agreements, contracts, and docu- ments that he deems fit and appro- priate.” At the same time, they also rewrote the foundation’s bylaws, expanding its mission to support not just the public library, but also “literacy and community organi- zations.” Soon afterward, money started flowing to NOJO. In 2012 and 2013, the Library Foundation awarded NOJO $666,000 and $197,000, respec- tively, from its $3.5 million endow- ment. WWL reported that internal emails revealed that the founda- tion directed an additional $375,000 to NOJO in 2011 without initially disclosing it on tax forms. During this period, Mayfield and Markham received annual salaries of between $100,000 and $200,000 each from NOJO. In an email, Markham said that the foundation changed its bylaws “to broaden its scope and effective- ness.” He said NOJO intended to build a “storefront branch of the public library system” that was mentioned in the library system’s master plan dating back to 2008. The New Orleans Jazz Market of- fers free broadband, daytime con- certs, literacy programming and a book collection of more than 700 titles — all of which have been used by an estimated 3,000 chil- dren since April 2015, he said. “The future plans are to im- prove the existing programming to better serve the needs of the community,” he said. Hurricane Katrina struck a near death blow to the New Orleans public library system. All 12 branches experienced devastating water and mold damage, and only a few were salvageable. Most staff- ers were displaced, and some had to return making less than they had before the storm. Tania Tet- low, the foundation board presi- dent Nagin fired and replaced with Mayfield, said that after the storm, the philanthropic commu- nity rallied to rebuild and within a few years had raised more than $7 million, with an additional $3.5 million secured for the en- dowment. “No foundation gives away ap- proximately a third of its endow- ment unless there’s a major crisis. Even if this somehow was the greatest, most important library project possible, which I can’t un- derstand how it would be, May- field had a conflict of interest,” she said, adding: “There’s a special place in hell for people who steal from libraries.” ‘Significant deficiencies’ Althoughe Markham insists that NOJO earmarked the foundation money for a good cause, “that does not change the fact that the money was taken from where it was sup- posed to have been spent and gone somewhere else, which makes for a classic federal prosecution case,” said Peter Henning, a former feder- al prosecutor who now teaches law at Wayne State University in De- troit. Aiding the federal case will probably be a state-commissioned financial audit of NOJO by LaPorte, a Baton Rouge account- ing firm, that shows “significant deficiencies” in NOJO’s bookkeep- ing. A copy obtained by The Post notes that NOJO paid Mayfield’s production company for services totaling more than $300,000 com- bined for the fiscal years ending June 30 in 2014 and 2015 despite having no written agreement al- lowing the transaction. The audit also found “several areas wherein controls appeared to be deficient,” such as a lack of canceled invoices, proper coding of expenses and documentation for purchases made with a debit card. “The business purposes of meal or travel transactions were not noted,” the audit states. Overseeing the organization was the job of NOJO’s 20-member board, which is stacked with celeb- rities and dignitaries, including J. Kevin Poorman, a Chicago-based board member of the Barack Obama Foundation and chief ex- ecutive of a private investment firm founded by Commerce Secre- tary Penny Pritzker; former Re- publican Party consultant Mary Matalin; and CNN personality Soledad O’Brien. Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor of philanthropic studies at Indiana University who led the Corpora- tion for National and Community Service under presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, said that not only should Mayfield and Markham have recused them- selves from decisions involving NOJO, but also that the NOJO board itself had an obligation “to oversee how that money was being used and where the money was coming from.” “Boards have all sorts of prob- lems. But you need a board that can say no. If it’s a board of people that are too close to the principal, or if there are too many of them, it can lead to some very bad mis- takes in their decisions,” Len- kowsky said. Enduring damage Even if Mayfield and Markham are never charged with wrongdo- ing, the scandal has done irrefut- able harm to the public library system. Brown, the new founda- tion chairman, said that donations have dropped to zero and that the endowment now dangles under $2 million. “We are tainted,” he said. Many philanthropists, including Carol Billings, a former head of the Louisiana Library Association, said she and her husband have stopped their annual giving. “I’m so furious. I’m not giving them any more money that they can squander or use in an illegal way,” she said. Gary Solomon, the chief execu- tive of Crescent Bank & Trust and one of the city’s biggest philan- thropists, said he is frustrated that NOJO didn’t pay back the full amount but instead offered to pay less than half. He blames Mayfield directly. “I’m so disappointed in that it seems to me that [Mayfield] abused that role in the foundation in a way I don’t think many non- profits would allow,” he said. But the insularity of New Or- leans society may ultimately be to blame for so many conflicting in- terests serving each other at the same time. Even Brown, who is policing the repayment on behalf of the Li- brary Foundation, said he has cut ties with Mayfield, a longtime friend. “If he calls me, I will not answer; if he emails me, I will not email him back,” Brown said. [email protected] A Big Easy trumpet star’s tarnished brass Irvin Mayfield became board chairman of a foundation for New Orleans’s ravaged libraries. Then its endowment started flowing elsewhere. RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES “I do not believe that I have violated any law,” says Irvin Mayfield, shown performing with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) in 2012. He and an associate directed more than $1 million from a public library foundation to NOJO, where both men have drawn six-figure salaries. AFFILIATE PARTNER in association with 2016 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES All concerts are FREE and open to the public. Tickets or reservations are not required. For more information about additional concerts in your area, please check our online performance calendar. 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E4 VA EE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17 , 2016
BY MARK GUARINO
Irvin Mayfield made his Carne-gie Hall debut in October 2012,and it was quite a star-studdedaffair. Dignitaries spoke, guest stars such as Aaron Neville ap-peared alongside the young trum-peter, and even CNN’s SoledadO’Brien emceed. For a local boy growing up in New Orleans, the achievement was undeniable. Even local station WWOZ markedthe occasion by broadcasting the concert live for hometown listen-ers.
Yet the performance had a pricetag: more than $20,000 before travel, production and talentcosts, which could reach up to tensof thousands of dollars. The NewOrleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), Mayfield’s nonprofit organization,rented the venue, according to Michael Tomczak, a Carnegie Hallspokesman. Mayfield threw theparty, it appears, for himself.
The lavish spending during thistime by NOJO has made the Gram-my-winning trumpeter the targetof a three-year federal probe fol-lowing media reports that showedhow he and business associateRonald Markham directed morethan $1 million from a privatefoundation tasked to aid the city’sbeleaguered public library systemto NOJO, where both men have drawn six-figure salaries. The situ-ation has enraged the city’s philan-thropic community and shrunk library donations. A financial au-dit released late last year showsthat NOJO paid Mayfield’s pro-duction company hundreds of thousands of dollars. An account-ing of where and how money was spent was practically nonexistent.
In an emailed statement to TheWashington Post, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Mayfield owes the city an apology, calling the shifting of funds from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation to NOJO “improper and a serious breach of trust.”
“While an agreement is in placeto reimburse the Library Founda-tion in part, this scandal has sub-stantially damaged the Library Foundation’s brand, its endow-ment and its relationship with the New Orleans Public Library Sys-tem. Ultimately, kids lost out,” Lan-drieu said.
In the years after the devasta-tion wrought by Hurricane Ka-trina, Mayfield, 38, branded him-self his city’s ambassador, per-forming benefit concerts, meeting presidents George W. Bush andBarack Obama, playing presti-gious stages throughout the world,and earning a seat on the NationalCouncil on the Arts. He also soldhis name and likeness to BourbonStreet’s Royal Sonesta Hotel, which opened Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, a namesake clubhis team started booking in 2009.
“Irvin was at the forefront oftaking our story nationally and even globally, and that mattered,”
said City Council member LaToyaCantrell. “He played a critical rolein showing that New Orleansneeded to rebound and its ownpeople were spearheading that growth. You can’t take that away.”
Mayfield’s fall from grace re-sults from the usual hubris of ce-lebrity, but in this case it was also enabled by the city’s infamous lais-sez-faire attitude. Mayfield and Markham, also childhood friends, were subject to little to no over-sight from board members of theLibrary Foundation and NOJO.Part of the reason was Mayfield’s charm and talent, but another rea-son was because many of the peo-ple tasked with policing the foun-dation had conflicting interests aswell.
“He plays their private parties,he plays their bar mitzvahs. Forthose people to go on record andadmit they were wrong meansthey would have to take a longhard look in the mirror to say, ‘Thisguy got one over on me,’ ” said a music industry executive whoasked not to be named for businessreasons. “What made them givethis guy a pass? I think they now have the self-awareness that they[messed] up big time.”
A federal probeThe scandal first erupted last
year when WWL-TV, a CBS affili-ate, revealed that Mayfield and
Markham rewrote the bylaws ofthe Library Foundation board sothey could divert funds to NOJO. Last month, WWL further re-vealed that Mayfield spent $18,000 of foundation money on afive-night trip to New York in 2012.According to a foundation audit inMay, he billed the foundation for rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel,meals, liquor, limousine rides anda single breakfast costing $1,400.
“There was nothing that sug-gested [the trip] had anything to do with the Library Foundation,”said Bob Brown, president of thefoundation’s board. In May, thefoundation sent repeated letters toMayfield and his attorney de-manding immediate payment; thefirst two letters were returned un-opened, Brown said.
Mayfield and Markham steppeddown from the board, and this month, Mayfield resigned his post as NOJO’s artistic director. NOJO has not admitted wrongdoing, but in May it worked out a voluntary agreement with the foundation to return $483,000 in installments stretching into May 2021. NOJO also pledged to raise the rest of the $1.1 million through benefit con-certs. But it is questionable wheth-er Mayfield’s drawing power is strong enough to eliminate the def-icit and whether he will perform with the group at all since he cut ties with NOJO this month.
“The deal will never be paidback, because Irvin’s concert feesare not comparable to that pay-ment plan, ” said the music indus-try executive. In June, a citizensgroup, Make NOJO Pay, erected abillboard one block from NOJOheadquarters to raise publicawareness and demand full repay-ment.
“I do not believe that I haveviolated any law,” Mayfield said onhis Facebook page July 5.
He declined to be interviewedfor this story.
Sources told The Post that theU.S. attorney for New Orleanslaunched an investigation in June2013. Brown confirmed that theagency subpoenaed attorneys
working with the foundation. Ra-fael Goyeneche, a former state’s attorney for Louisiana who headsthe Metropolitan Crime Commis-sion, a nonprofit organization ex-posing white-collar crime andpublic corruption, said the casestarted when a whistleblower con-tacted the group in May 2013; hethen brought the allegations to theU.S. attorney.
“The fact that an investigationis still active three years after ourinitial referral indicates that they have found violations. There is astrong likelihood that criminalwrongdoing was found,” Goye-neche says.
New bylaws, new powersMany of the city’s philanthro-
pists described Mayfield as active-ly courting them to get on boards of some of the city’s most presti-gious institutions with the inten-tion, they said, to get them toeventually steer their money toward his personal projects, par-ticularly the New Orleans Jazz Market, a $10 million facility thatwould serve as NOJO’s headquar-ters. His biography during this period swelled with honorary uni-versity degrees, board appoint-ments and artist-in-residencehonors. By last year, Mayfield saton at least a dozen boards.
Mayfield got the library honorin 2007 through Daniel Packer,vice chairman of NOJO, who ad-vised then-mayor Ray Nagin toappoint the trumpeter chairmanof the Library Foundation’s boardof directors. Soon Mayfield not only headed the Library Founda-tion board, but also the librarysystem as well, putting him inadministrative control of the li-braries and their endowment. Heousted top librarians and even-tually the director of the LibraryFoundation. In a 2009 interviewwith Offbeat, a local music maga-zine, Mayfield shrugged off critics, saying, “I challenge people to stop questioning why I’m doing thingsand start questioning what they’redoing to improve the city.”
Under Mayfield, two-thirds of
the foundation board seats wereeliminated. There were conflicts atthe start: One of the board’s new members was Markham, also the chief executive of NOJO. Another member was Dan Forman, the sonof Ron Forman, a local power bro-ker who happens to be chairmanof NOJO’s board.
Then, in June 2012, the newboard voted to grant sweepingpowers to Mayfield, giving him theright to “sign any and all acts, agreements, contracts, and docu-ments that he deems fit and appro-priate.” At the same time, they alsorewrote the foundation’s bylaws, expanding its mission to supportnot just the public library, but also“literacy and community organi-zations.” Soon afterward, moneystarted flowing to NOJO.
In 2012 and 2013, the LibraryFoundation awarded NOJO$666,000 and $197,000, respec-tively, from its $3.5 million endow-ment. WWL reported that internalemails revealed that the founda-tion directed an additional$375,000 to NOJO in 2011 without initially disclosing it on tax forms. During this period, Mayfield andMarkham received annual salariesof between $100,000 and $200,000 each from NOJO.
In an email, Markham said thatthe foundation changed its bylaws“to broaden its scope and effective-ness.” He said NOJO intended tobuild a “storefront branch of thepublic library system” that wasmentioned in the library system’smaster plan dating back to 2008.The New Orleans Jazz Market of-fers free broadband, daytime con-certs, literacy programming and abook collection of more than 700titles — all of which have beenused by an estimated 3,000 chil-dren since April 2015, he said.
“The future plans are to im-prove the existing programmingto better serve the needs of thecommunity,” he said.
Hurricane Katrina struck a neardeath blow to the New Orleans public library system. All 12 branches experienced devastatingwater and mold damage, and only
a few were salvageable. Most staff-ers were displaced, and some hadto return making less than they had before the storm. Tania Tet-low, the foundation board presi-dent Nagin fired and replaced with Mayfield, said that after the storm, the philanthropic commu-nity rallied to rebuild and within afew years had raised more than $7 million, with an additional$3.5 million secured for the en-dowment.
“No foundation gives away ap-proximately a third of its endow-ment unless there’s a major crisis.Even if this somehow was the greatest, most important library project possible, which I can’t un-derstand how it would be, May-field had a conflict of interest,” shesaid, adding: “There’s a specialplace in hell for people who stealfrom libraries.”
‘Significant deficiencies’Althoughe Markham insists that
NOJO earmarked the foundation money for a good cause, “that does not change the fact that the money was taken from where it was sup-posed to have been spent and gone somewhere else, which makes for a classic federal prosecution case,” said Peter Henning, a former feder-al prosecutor who now teaches law at Wayne State University in De-troit.
Aiding the federal case willprobably be a state-commissionedfinancial audit of NOJO by LaPorte, a Baton Rouge account-ing firm, that shows “significant deficiencies” in NOJO’s bookkeep-ing. A copy obtained by The Postnotes that NOJO paid Mayfield’sproduction company for services totaling more than $300,000 com-bined for the fiscal years ending June 30 in 2014 and 2015 despitehaving no written agreement al-lowing the transaction. The auditalso found “several areas whereincontrols appeared to be deficient,”such as a lack of canceled invoices,proper coding of expenses anddocumentation for purchases made with a debit card.
“The business purposes of mealor travel transactions were not noted,” the audit states.
Overseeing the organizationwas the job of NOJO’s 20-memberboard, which is stacked with celeb-rities and dignitaries, including J.Kevin Poorman, a Chicago-based board member of the Barack Obama Foundation and chief ex-ecutive of a private investmentfirm founded by Commerce Secre-tary Penny Pritzker; former Re-publican Party consultant MaryMatalin; and CNN personality Soledad O’Brien.
Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor ofphilanthropic studies at Indiana University who led the Corpora-tion for National and CommunityService under presidents GeorgeW. Bush and Bill Clinton, said thatnot only should Mayfield and Markham have recused them-selves from decisions involving NOJO, but also that the NOJOboard itself had an obligation “tooversee how that money was beingused and where the money was coming from.”
“Boards have all sorts of prob-lems. But you need a board thatcan say no. If it’s a board of peoplethat are too close to the principal,or if there are too many of them, it can lead to some very bad mis-takes in their decisions,” Len-kowsky said.
Enduring damageEven if Mayfield and Markham
are never charged with wrongdo-ing, the scandal has done irrefut-able harm to the public library system. Brown, the new founda-tion chairman, said that donationshave dropped to zero and that the endowment now dangles under $2million. “We are tainted,” he said.Many philanthropists, includingCarol Billings, a former head of theLouisiana Library Association,said she and her husband have stopped their annual giving.
“I’m so furious. I’m not givingthem any more money that they can squander or use in an illegalway,” she said.
Gary Solomon, the chief execu-tive of Crescent Bank & Trust andone of the city’s biggest philan-thropists, said he is frustrated thatNOJO didn’t pay back the fullamount but instead offered to pay less than half. He blames Mayfielddirectly. “I’m so disappointed inthat it seems to me that [Mayfield]abused that role in the foundationin a way I don’t think many non-profits would allow,” he said.
But the insularity of New Or-leans society may ultimately be to blame for so many conflicting in-terests serving each other at thesame time.
Even Brown, who is policing therepayment on behalf of the Li-brary Foundation, said he has cutties with Mayfield, a longtimefriend.
“If he calls me, I will not answer;if he emails me, I will not email him back,” Brown said.
A Big Easy trumpet star’s tarnished brassIrvin Mayfield became board chairman of a foundation for New Orleans’s ravaged libraries. Then its endowment started flowing elsewhere.
RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES
“I do not believe that I have violated any law,” says Irvin Mayfield, shown performing with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) in 2012. He and an associate directed more than $1 million from a public library foundation to NOJO, where both men have drawn six-figure salaries.
AFFILIATE PARTNER
in association with
2016 SUMMERCONCERT SERIES
All concerts are FREE and open to the public. Tickets or reservations are not required. For moreinformation about additional concerts in your area, please check our online performance calendar.
MONDAYS AT 8 P.M.West steps of theU.S. CapitolWashington, D.C.
TUESDAYS AT 7:30 P.M.U.S. Navy Memorial701 Pennsylvania Ave., NWWashington, D.C.
