If you’re not sure which side to believe on this one, consider this related article about the City Council’s vote to “overhaul” (read: “gut”) the Office of the Inspector General and see who was quoted as being in support of it:

“What we don’t need is someone who professes to be the bastion of integrity but yet themselves engages in corrupt acts,” said councilman Michael Julian Bond, whose connections to a lobbyist with contracts with the city were questioned by the inspector general.

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