Council: No laws broken in firetruck gift, but policies ignored

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A 10-month D.C. Council probe into the donation of emergency vehicles to the Dominican Republic found no criminal wrongdoing, but it did conclude that the Fenty administration’s handling of the gift was sloppy, secretive and indifferent to city rules.

The investigation by the council’s judiciary and government operations committees was released Wednesday, 10 months after The Examiner first reported on the unusual contribution of a firetruck and ambulance to Sosua, a town on the northern Dominican coast.

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