No-Bid Contract Saves D.C. Official's Pension ; Critic Calls Arrangement 'Bizarre'

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Warren Graves, a key aide to former D.C. Mayors Marion Barry and Anthony A. Williams, and other politicians, recently earned more than $200,000 working as chief of staff in a city agency in charge of rebuilding city schools, but he wasn't on the government's payroll.

Instead, Mr. Graves was hired through a nearly quarter-million- dollar no-bid contract, an arrangement that meant he was not subject to city personnel rules and that would allow him to continue collecting a government pension.

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No-Bid Contract Saves D.C. Official's Pension ; Critic Calls Arrangement 'Bizarre'

Mr. Graves received a sole-source contract for $224,250 in August from the city's Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization for services described as "on-site consultant" at a time when h...

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