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Asked about the discrepancy, Reinoso said this week that his letter "was more of a rhetorical" exercise.

The Cost of Letting Him Go

What would it cost the city if Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi were to lose his job over the embezzlement scandal at the Office of Tax and Revenue?

Standing on Wall Street, institutional knowledge . . . and more than $1 million?

Possibly. Gandhi was reappointed in the spring to a five-year term and later given a raise to an annual salary of $279,000. Some D.C. Council members are now informally pondering what a potential severance package would look like.

"It might be cheaper to keep him," observed council member Yvette M. Alexander (D-Ward 7), who is in favor of replacing Gandhi.

Staff writer Nikita Stewart contributed to this report.


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