District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi leapt to the defense of his agency after weeks of criticism that his employees aren’t doing enough to fight corruption and waste in the city’s failing school system.

In an e-mail to The Examiner sent through his spokeswoman, Maryann Young, Gandhi said his agency lacks the legal authority to take on the fraud, waste and abuse that have plagued the city’s schools.

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