D.C. police officers ripped off taxpayers by claiming phony overtime while assisting in a pair of federal prosecutions, a top department inspector charged in documents obtained by The Examiner.

Inspector Hilton Burton, director of the police department’s Court Liaison Division, claimed in a letter to the D.C. inspector general that 17 officers, detectives or sergeants “have defrauded the District Government out of tens of thousands of dollars.”