What a moron! How could she think she would not get caught? Honestly something pathological about this behavior….

Lian resigned from the Falls Church City Council on Thursday, and city officials relayed information to the commonwealth’s attorney for investigation, a city spokeswoman told News4.

The Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney tells News4 her office is working with local law enforcement to investigate the matter.

Falls Church officials reviewed Lian’s most recent annual financial disclosure.

“Upon review, the City discovered that the former council member listed only Freddie Mac as her employer and did not disclose her employment relationship with the District of Columbia,” the Falls Church spokeswoman said in a statement.

Lian was the second-highest-ranking official in D.C.’s Department of Buildings and earned $175,000 per year. According to a disposition issued by the D.C. Board of Ethics and signed by Lian, she also earned a six-figure salary while working full-time for Freddie Mac.

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Yup. Bad apples like Caroline Lian are going to be an excuse to curtail hybrid work schedules. I hope someone prosecutes her. She shouldn't be allowed to just resign and walk away with her pension intact after defrauding two employers and DC tax payers. And if you've ever tried to deal with DC Dept of Buildings--it is a particularly dysfunctional part of DC government.

I want our POS mayor to call these POS District employees back in the office five days a week. These paper pushers are coasting on fat cushy jobs and most of them live in the suburbs. And then you have the rest of them that are working other job under the table during this hybrid bullshlt. As a 16 year DC resident, enuff is efukking nuff.

The District--what a land of opportunity! Live in the burbs and work from home while you collect a second hybrid salary! Then risk having a medical emergency when you're actually in the office and have 911 send emergency response to the wrong side of town.

Not only collecting a 2nd paycheck, but also qualifying for a bigger pension. Nuts.

And she keeps that pension because she was allowed to "resign." WTF is wrong with DC government.

Unsurprisingly the DC attorney is not investigating this crime, but in VA she was referred for investigation.

"Ex-DC official with secret 2nd job is referred for investigation in Northern Virginia"

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/ex-dc-official-with-secret-2nd-job-is-referred-for-investigation-in-northern-virginia/3689345/

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, why would someone do this? Who wants two jobs?! And this was so likely to get found out, I can’t believe she thought it would work.

One of those jobs clearly didn't require much time and attention.

Originally she was Chief Operating Officer before being promoted to Deputy Director. According to the Post there is no information on what she actually did as Deputy Director. At Freddie she was a risk management director.

The funniest part is that she was hired as the initial COO at DOB. The agency Bowser created to fix DCRA and takeover public building maintenance. In other words, it's the agency in charge of fixing the Wilson pool and maintaining school buildings along with construction permiting.

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Yup. Bad apples like Caroline Lian are going to be an excuse to curtail hybrid work schedules. I hope someone prosecutes her. She shouldn't be allowed to just resign and walk away with her pension intact after defrauding two employers and DC tax payers. And if you've ever tried to deal with DC Dept of Buildings--it is a particularly dysfunctional part of DC government.

I want our POS mayor to call these POS District employees back in the office five days a week. These paper pushers are coasting on fat cushy jobs and most of them live in the suburbs. And then you have the rest of them that are working other job under the table during this hybrid bullshlt. As a 16 year DC resident, enuff is efukking nuff.

The District--what a land of opportunity! Live in the burbs and work from home while you collect a second hybrid salary! Then risk having a medical emergency when you're actually in the office and have 911 send emergency response to the wrong side of town.

Not only collecting a 2nd paycheck, but also qualifying for a bigger pension. Nuts.

Anonymous wrote:
Yup. Bad apples like Caroline Lian are going to be an excuse to curtail hybrid work schedules. I hope someone prosecutes her. She shouldn't be allowed to just resign and walk away with her pension intact after defrauding two employers and DC tax payers. And if you've ever tried to deal with DC Dept of Buildings--it is a particularly dysfunctional part of DC government.

I want our POS mayor to call these POS District employees back in the office five days a week. These paper pushers are coasting on fat cushy jobs and most of them live in the suburbs. And then you have the rest of them that are working other job under the table during this hybrid bullshlt. As a 16 year DC resident, enuff is efukking nuff.

The District--what a land of opportunity! Live in the burbs and work from home while you collect a second hybrid salary! Then risk having a medical emergency when you're actually in the office and have 911 send emergency response to the wrong side of town.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, why would someone do this? Who wants two jobs?! And this was so likely to get found out, I can’t believe she thought it would work.

One of those jobs clearly didn't require much time and attention.

Wow she has some balls. Not too bright though.

Anonymous wrote:She wasn't going to be fired and only had to pay a $25,000 fine!

https://bega.dc.gov/publication/24-0056-p-c-lian-negotiated-disposition

She worked at Freddie Mac, not Fannie Mae. A director at Freddie Mac pulls in - on average - around $300K total comp (based on 113 reports on Glassdoor).

So she was pulling close to half a million per year if she was just at the median for a director at Freddie Mac. Crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:A $25000 fine? She should refund the full salary for the entire time she broke the terms of her contract besides any fine.

Not to mention the inherent conflict of interest in working for Fannie Mae and DOB at the same time.

Presumably Fannie will give her a kick in the Fannie or at least a pink slip.

yeah, she was also ripping off Fannie Mae. They are looking for excuses to cut head cut, so she's probably been gone for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:A $25000 fine? She should refund the full salary for the entire time she broke the terms of her contract besides any fine.

Not to mention the inherent conflict of interest in working for Fannie Mae and DOB at the same time.

Presumably Fannie will give her a kick in the Fannie or at least a pink slip.

HR at the Mayor's office is less than stellar to say the least.

eh, I still think this pales in comparison to the DC public library HR director who was delivering babies on the clock a few months back...

Seriously, why would someone do this? Who wants two jobs?! And this was so likely to get found out, I can’t believe she thought it would work.