Let’s check in with the widening Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement scandal, shall we? Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that two more tax office employees had been placed on leave from their jobs in connection with the alleged $20 million-plus fraud, though CFO Natwar Gandhi refused to identify them except to say they work in the real property assessment division of the office. Four senior managers have tendered their resignation since the news broke. Two tax office employees, Harriette Walters and Diane Gustus, have been arrested along with a number of non-government co-conspirators.

Amid warnings from authorities that the grand total of this mega-fraud could go “substantially higher,” The Examiner has now uncovered evidence that checks to a phony company implicated in the fraud scheme, called “Bellarmine,” date back as early as 1999, when Gandhi was still the head of the Office of Tax and Revenue. Gandhi became CFO in 2000. These revelations come after Gandhi gave a public statement that he personally reviewed and signed every check that left the tax office while he was in charge there — which was his justification for asking for the resignations of Sherryl Hobbs Newman, her deputy director, Matthew Braman, the director of real property tax administration, Martin A. Skolnik, and the chief assessor, Thomas Branham.

On Saturday, several D.C. Council members were sticking up for Gandhi, saying his reputation went beyond this scandal and he should not be asked to resign. Mayor Fenty has also been notably quiet on the matter. Think these latest revelations might actually jeopardize Gandhi’s job?