From CFO to croupier

Natwar Gandhi has gone from chief financial officer to croupier. Working in near secrecy in 2010 with at-large Councilman Michael Brown, the CFO facilitated a controversial plan to implement Internet gambling in the District — despite his written analysis raising fiscal and legal questions about the proposal.

In that analysis, in the form of a May 25 memorandum to Brown, Gandhi projected collecting only $243,750 from online fantasy sports in 2011. From 2011 through 2014, he estimated, cumulative revenues would total $2.4 million.