An auditor for the beleaguered D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue has been charged with demanding a bribe from a business he was auditing, according to documents filed in federal court.
In November 2007, El-Hadj Drame, of Silver Spring, solicited and received $6,000 from an individual business owner whose company he was auditing for sales and use tax, prosecutors allege. In return, Drame, agreed to lower the business’s sales and use tax liability, documents said.
The business and owner were not identified in the charging documents.
The D.C. tax office was the agency where employees embezzled $48 million from city taxpayers by creating phony property tax refunds. Drame’s alleged bribe occurred around the same time that FBI agents announced the details of the multimillion-dollar tax scam.
