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If you’re following the ongoing saga of Vince Gray’s home improvement debacle, the Washington Times’s Jeffrey Anderson has filed yet another doozy. Apart from the more recent work supervised by William C. Smith & Co./WCS Construction, there’s also long been the question of the big metal fence that Gray had installed around his property in 2008. That work turns out to have been performed by Mid-Atlantic Deck and Fence Co., of Gambrills, Md., a company that also does not possess a license to work inside the District. This quote, from company president Bruce Beauchamp, is fairly fascinating:

“How we got into this, I have no idea,” Mr. Beauchamp said, adding that his company rarely, if ever, works in the District and did not obtain a permit. “Our contract says the buyer will obtain the permit. I don’t even know where to get a … permit in D.C.”

As they say, read the whole thing, especially the estimate from a sales manager at Long Fence Co., who puts the actual cost of the fence at roughly $25,000. Gray paid $12,000.