WTTG’s Tisha Thompson has been all over the story of Allen Sessoms — the President of the University of the District of Columbia who stands accused of basically using the school as his personal travel agent and home improvement warehouse — and yesterday, she provided an in-depth look at exactly where all the money poured into Sessoms’ home went. For example: $76,000 in bookshelves!

The highlights of Thompson’s investigation into the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of repairs UDC paid for at Sessoms’ four bedroom, three bath, $1.5 million Rittenhouse Road NW home:

• $90,000 in granite and marble countertops
• $15,000 for all new stainless steel appliances
• $76,000 for custom-made bookshelves (installed at Sessoms’ request, because he “has a lot of books”)
• “more than” $1,200 a month on landscaping for the 1/3-acre property
• $35,000 for a full window replacement
• $46,000 to pay a UDC employee to be a housekeeper

All that despite the fact that Sessoms, “required by contract to live in” the home, didn’t even move into the place until 2008. UDC told Thompson that there’s been 13 events held at the home since Sessoms moved in, which means that the university has ponied up about $70,000 in repairs for every time the President has wined and dined people at his residence. (Of course, with all the traveling Sessoms has done on the University’s time, it’s no wonder he hasn’t had many dinner parties on Rittenhouse Road.)

Show of hands: anyone out there surprised that WTTG’s investigation also found that the repairs — all told, about $900,000 worth on a $1.5 million home — were performed mostly by contractors from Maryland and Virginia? Yeah, I didn’t think so.