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>> Five years since it lost $48 million in an embezzlement scheme involving its manager, D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue is still gravely troubled, the Post reports. In a big story today, the Post digs into an auditor’s report warning Natwar Gandhi, the District’s chief financial officer, of lax controls and weak oversight, a situation that leads to sloppy tracking of tax payments, the creation of “dummy accounts” and millions in unprocessed tax payments.

>> Former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is due back in federal court today for a hearing on a violation of the court-ordered terms of his release pending sentencing for the bank fraud charges to which he pleaded guilty earlier this year. Though prosecutors have not specified Brown’s violation, his plea agreement requires him to check in periodically with court officials.

>> In her column today, the Post’s Petula Dvorak remembers Bill Line, the National Park Service spokesman who was found dead in his home yesterday of an apparent suicide. Line, Dvorak writes, could be prickly, but he deeply loved NPS’s Washington region, even if it wasn’t always apparent in his conversations with reporters. “Bill loved Washington, but Washington didn’t always love him back,” Dvorak writes.

Briefly Noted: Griffin says he’ll be ready to play next week. … Allen and Kaine have another testy debate in Virginia. … After Teddy wins, Let Teddy Win invents new conspiracy theories to justify site’s continuation. … Start-up firm uses pizza truck to advertise job openings, presumably yielding flood of drunk and stoned resumés.

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