The head of a Washington nonprofit group has resigned after his organization became one of several to be investigated as part of a probe into city grants awarded by Councilman Marion Barry, The Washington Post reports.

The Rev. Anthony J. Motley co-founded the JOBS Coalition, one of several grass-roots organizations named in a report by Robert S. Bennett, a lawyer who investigated the transactions at the D.C. Council’s behest. The report concluded that Mr. Motley, who received about $54,000 in earmarks as head of the JOBS Coalition and another nonprofit group, mishandled city funds.

Announcing his departure at a news conference, Mr. Motley, who is also running for a seat on the council, criticized the report’s “prosecutorial tone” and said the investigator did not understand how nonprofit agencies work.

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