A top official at the University of the District of Columbia mishandled a $3.6 million job-training grant, allowed underlings to pay themselves for training programs with no students and sat on millions in federal funds until they had to be given back, investigators have been told.

As provost of the university, Wilhemina Reuben-Cooke has nearly unlimited authority over millions of dollars in academic programs and grants. She has become the focal point of federal and local investigations into mismanagement at the 5,700-student college, sources told The Examiner.