Philadelphia officials this week demanded that D.C. Inspector General Charles Willoughby retract an audit that accuses a former District planning director, now a deputy mayor in Philadelphia, of an ethics violation.

The District’s IG concluded in a July 31 report that Andrew Altman, former chief of the now-defunct , violated rules in 2005 when he signed a contract for real estate management services with a firm that had used him as a reference in its bid, and included a partner who was said to have formerly worked under Altman.