The latest body to request an investigation into the Department of Housing and Community Development is the agency itself after it was discovered this week that it spent $5.5 million in city funds for a nonprofit organization to renovate apartment buildings in deals that eventually went very, very bad

The Department of Housing and Community Development has fired an employee involved with overseeing an apartment project by the youth outreach group Peaceoholics in which two Maryland developers allegedly defrauded the city of millions of dollars.

In a report released this morning, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) charged developers involved in the sale and rehabilitation of buildings formerly owned by the youth outreach organization Peacoholics with misappropriating District funds.

In a press release Saturday afternoon, Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) called for an investigation into the District Department of Housing and Community Development to determine if there has been any “unethical behavior and possible criminal malfeasance and collusion between contractors and current and former employees.”

One more update on Firetruckgate from the Examiner’s Michael Neibauer to end out the week. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is now defending the mysterious donation of an older D.C. government firetruck and ambulance to a resort town in the Dominican Republic, saying that the vehicles were properly declared surplus by the Office of Contracting and Procurement and lawfully donated to non-profit Peaceaholics, the group that arranged the donation. Even so, both vehicles have since…