Board of Education President Peggy Cooper Cafritz and Vice President Carolyn Graham tried to discredit a whistle-blower whose allegations of wrongdoing in the D.C. charter schools office started a grand jury investigation, sources tell The Examiner.

Financial analyst Steve Kapani went to the D.C. Inspector General’s office in mid-March, alleging that his boss, Brenda Belton, was giving no-bid contracts to relatives and friends.