Hoping to save their foundering efforts to build a DNA lab, D.C. officials manipulated public funds to hire a nationally renowned forensic dentist, paying him as an architectural consultant.

William Vosburgh will earn more than $230,000 under a one-year contract given to a Fairfax architecture firm, documents obtained by The Examiner show. Vosburgh is supposed to help the District train and recruit DNA technicians so that D.C. can have its own forensic lab.