D.C. officials refuse to approve audit report

Two top officials in the District of Columbia’s finance office have refused to sign off on a private consultant’s audit that gave their office a clean bill of fiscal health, according to a school source and government documents.

Pamela Graham, the financial officer assigned to the District’s troubled school system, and Abinet Belachew, the schools’ comptroller, are balking because of their concern that the consultant failed to criticize the finance office while lambasting the schools, the school source said.