Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has again raided the private sector for an agency head: Bryan D. Sivak, 34, is his new chief technology officer.
Sivak replaces interim CTO Chris Willey, who in turn replaced Vivek Kundra, who exited the Fenty administration for a top federal job in the Office of Management and Budget.
Like transportation director Gabe [...]

As LL has said repeatedly, there is not evidence that former Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra was in any way directly involved in the graft that allegedly happened under his nose. But it did happen under his nose.
So here's a question: Where was the oversight?
Kundra gave assurances that he was directly involved in the approval [...]

LL's spent the last couple of hours poring though the affidavit filed by federal authorities in support of the arrests made today in connection with OCTO corruption.
Here's the headlines:

The whole scheme was laid bare thanks to the cooperation of an OCTO employee who was introduced into the scheme last March by Yusuf Acar. The employee [...]

LL's been eyeballing city purchase orders this afternoon, trying to suss out some more information about Sushil Bansal (pictured), arrested in connection to the OCTO corruption probe, and his company, Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. (AITC).
Long story short, they've done a lot of business with the city.
According to publicly downloadable city records—thanks, Vivek!—the city has authorized [...]

They call it "burrowing in"—when government employees in politically appointed posts move into civil-service jobs as political fortunes shift.
That's what a lot folks working for Republicans are doing right now in the federal government. And, at the District level, there's some burrowing, too.
Nyasha Smith, who clerked the workforce development and government operations committee for outgoing [...]