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Mayor Ordered to Give Auditor Economic Development Records

dcogcadmin | November 3, 2009

The Fenty administration must immediately give D.C. Auditor Deborah K. Nichols documents of the former Anacostia Waterfront Corp. and the National Capital Revitalization Corp. Read the opinion here.

On Oct. 30, Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene N. Hamilton denied a stay while the District appeals his earlier order enforcing a subpoena Nichols issued for the documents. It is likely that the Attorney General will ask the D.C. Court of Appeals to reverse the ruling. Before Judge Hamilton ruled the District asked the Court of Appeals to stay the subpoena, but that court held the matter in abeyance until Judge Hamilton ruled.

The Fenty administration must immediately give D.C. Auditor Deborah K. Nichols documents of the former Anacostia Waterfront Corp. and the National Capital Revitalization Corp. Read the opinion here.

On Oct. 30, Superior Court Senior Judge Eugene N. Hamilton denied a stay while the District appeals his earlier order enforcing a subpoena Nichols issued for the documents. It is likely that the Attorney General will ask the D.C. Court of Appeals to reverse the ruling. Before Judge Hamilton ruled the District asked the Court of Appeals to stay the subpoena, but that court held the matter in abeyance until Judge Hamilton ruled.