At D.C.’s tax office, it’s the culture

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray says the report on the legislature’s investigation into the $50 million embezzlement by Harriette Walters and others at the Office of Tax and Revenue will be released “somewhere around December 16.”

It’s unclear what William R. McLucas, the attorney at Wilmer Hale law firm who conducted the inquiry, discovered. But a letter dated Sept. 8 to Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy G. Lynch from A. Scott Bolden, on behalf of his client Diane Gustus, hints at what McLucas’ report might reveal about how the criminal enterprise went undetected for decades.