A former District of Columbia official who resigned amid a $1.5 million campaign finance scandal has been assigned to clean up the District’s failing public schools.

Abdusalam Omer was Mayor Anthony Williams’ chief of staff until he resigned in 2001, just before he was mentioned in a D.C. inspector general’s report.

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