A day after the Washington Post put a number as high as $2.46 million on the amount of money that was stolen from the Office of Tax and Revenue in 1999, the last year that current D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi was the head of the office, at least two D.C. Council members are starting to test the waters by suggesting that Gandhi ought to resign. At-large member Kwame Brown and Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham stopped short of officially calling for Gandhi to step down, but both said they think it would make the most sense for Gandhi to go.

Brown told WUSA yesterday that he thinks it’s time for Gandhi to step down. The Post also quotes Brown as saying, “Gandhi has got to go” — though he also said that it is the Mayor’s job to ask for Gandhi’s resignation, and stopped short of officially asking himself.

Graham’s position was even less committal. “Isn’t what’s good for the goose good for the gander?” he asked according to the Post, referring to the high level managers Gandhi has already fired in the wake of the scandal.

The CFO can only be fired for cause if both the Mayor and two-thirds of the D.C. Council agree. Gandhi has said that if Fenty and the Council asked him to resign, he would.

The D.C. Council approved emergency legislation yesterday to create a special committee to investigate the tax office scandal, in which at least $30 million was embezzled by District employees and their accomplices.

The Examiner also revealed today that the accused leader of the embezzlement scheme, Harriette Walters, was warned by her bosses a few months before her arrest to stop lavishing gifts on her co-workers and superiors.

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