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And here’s your Friday news dump from the Wilson Building for this week: The Post reports that the human resources director of the District’s Department of Health Care Finance has been fired from the agency, as has her son, as part of an investigation into nepotism practices at the agency.

Kim McRae, who ran the HR office at the agency responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in District spending, was let go today, along with her son, Chase Lancaster, after the two failed to disclose their relationship when Lancaster was hired, the Post reports. McRae’s personal assistant was fired, too.

Wayne Turnage, the head of the agency, told the Post that Lancaster started as an intern in 2009 and proceeded on a “meteoric rise,” eventually landing a $56,000-a-year job, but never told anyone that McRae is is mother:

“I did not hear about it until September,” said Turnage. “I asked Kim about it and she said, ‘Yes, he was on board and had been promoted.”

After the Department of Human Resources issued a report on the matter this spring, Turnage said he asked that McRae and Lancaster be dismissed. McRae’s personal assistant was also let go because she knew about the relationship and failed to report it, officials said.

“Your HR shop has to be like Caesar’s wife,” Turnage said. “You can’t have people treating people unfairly inequitably or doing something that is a clearly a violation of any standard.”

The Department of Health Care Finance, we know all too well, was shaken up quite a bit last year when the one-time bottom-rung 2010 mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown briefly landed a job at the agency with a $110,000 salary, only to be fired five days later. Brown’s ousting from the agency prompted him to accuse Vince Gray’s mayoral campaign of promising him the job in exchange for attacking Adrian Fenty, sparking an investigation that nearly derailed Gray’s first year in office and led to the resignation of Gray chief of staff Geri Mason Hall.