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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does this woman have time to do all this? City Council isn't just a 2 hour per week hobby.

No kids?[/quote]

I don't get how they're just allowing her to resign.  Doesn't DC fire anyone?  They should claw back half her salary--because at best she was dedicating half her time to the job she was paid a full salary for.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/07/dc-buildings-official-resign-jobs/
A top official at the D.C. Department of Buildings has resigned after an ethics probe found she was secretly working a separate full-time private-sector job on her city “telework” days — violations that resulted in a $25,000 fine from a D.C. ethics board.

In addition, the official, DOB deputy director Caroline Lian, is a Falls Church City Council member — and allegedly attended to council business also on D.C. time, according to the Aug. 1 report from the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

According to the BEGA’s findings, Lian never shared on required financial disclosure forms that she was also working as a risk-management director at Freddie Mac, a major housing finance company where she made six figures. And while she did disclose her public position as a Falls Church legislator, the BEGA found that on more than 10 occasions Lian attended to city council business and meetings on D.C. work days without logging time off. She also underreported her compensation as a council member, which Lian told investigators was an error that she has since corrected.

According to the negotiated settlement, Lian worked a hybrid work schedule at DOB, typically coming into the office on Mondays and Fridays while teleworking Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

At Freddie Mac, she also worked a hybrid schedule — the opposite one, in which she came into the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, according to the BEGA.

BEGA investigators wrote that Lian performed “essential work functions on [Freddie Mac’s] behalf during the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, in direct conflict with her DOB tour of duty.”
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