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Bobb Helped in Hiring Of Former Associate
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Of the amount that Rios billed the contractor, $3,000 was not paid to her because she performed the work in July 2004 and the subcontract was not signed until that August. Her invoices for that July included seven hours of discussions with Bobb and four hours of Internet research.
Rios said that because she and Bobb were members of the city's baseball recruitment team, talking with him was within her scope of work.
"I was being paid for what I was charged to do as part of the contract," Rios said yesterday. "I was working with members of the recruitment team. If I talked to members of the recruitment team, yes, that was part of my services."
Records show that Rios wrote Bobb on April 2, 2004, saying that based on discussions with him and others on the baseball recruitment team, she was "pleased to offer my services in support of the recruitment of the Montreal Expos to Washington, D.C."
Judi Greenberg, a special assistant in the office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, was responsible for overseeing Rios's subcontract, city records show. In an October e-mail to the city's contracting office, Greenberg said that she was attaching a request to add a subcontractor and that based on "our discussion, we will assume that SAG can use this subcontractor."
The auditor's report also cited payments of $25,000 each to consultants Melinda Yee-Franklin and Lily Hu, former associates of Bobb's who were contracted by the mayor's office without a written agreement to help plan the mayor's trade mission to China in October.
The report also found that there was no authority from the contracting office for the hiring of Jane Brunner, a labor lawyer and Oakland City Council member who received a contract for up to $90,000 with the D.C. Department of Employment Services to develop a job training program. She was paid $8,667 and has billed the city an additional $29,000.
Orange said he wants Bobb to interpret a February 2004 e-mail in which it appears Bobb was planning to steer that contract to Brunner. Bobb wrote to Brunner that "my team are aware of my desire to use your services" and added: "I need to assign a staff person to work out our consultant deal."
Orange said he also will ask Bobb about contracts with Ira Sockowitz and his firm, the Phoenix Consulting Group. Sockowitz was paid $19,900 to supervise the planning of the China trip. The contracting office could not find a file to prove whether the $75,000 contract awarded to Sockowitz's firm was competitively bid, the auditor's report shows.
