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Mayor’s security detail focal point of budget vote
Trammell said she felt betrayed by Samuels. “If it’s legal, it should not be legal, because I have not seen this done before,” she told Samuels and the rest of the council. “You did this to me. You...
View ArticleRichmond Council passes budget amid loud debate over security detail
Trammel blames Council President Charles Samuels, claiming he worked behind closed doors to allow Jones’ office to pull that $100,000 from the city’s 311 department to make up the difference. Link
View ArticleEditorial: Not cool
Members of Richmond’s City Council have complained that the administration of Mayor Dwight Jones does not always keep them informed, that they occasionally learn of critical questions at the last...
View ArticleMayor’s Security Detail Under Fire
So just how, Trammell demanded to know, did the $400,000 make it back in the final version council was slated to vote on in a few hours? She blamed “backroom shenanigans.” Link
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More on the Mayor’s Security Detail
City Council voted to cut $100,000 from the mayor’s security detail. Councilor Samuels privately directed a city employee to change “mayor’s security detail” to the “311 Call Center.” The following...
View ArticleState report sheds more light on city Social Services dysfunction
The 82-page report by the Virginia Department of Social Services — the second of three that are to be released on the city agency — underscored what a damning investigation by the city auditor first...
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CBS 6 investigation prompts exit of Richmond finance director
June 28 2013. On Tuesday, after our encounter with Ochei, we handed our findings over to the man who ultimately hired him, Byron Marshall. Two days later, on Thursday, he sat down for an interview and...
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Councilor Samuels 14 Months Late
June 28 2013. APRIL 26, 2012 TIMES-DISPATCH UPDATE: CITY CLOSING RICHMOND JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER The closure is after concerns about “staff and management shortcomings and allegations of criminal...
View ArticleRichmond’s hiring process questioned after departure of finance director
City Chief Administrative Officer Byron Marshall is the man who signed Finance Director Dominic Ochei’s hiring letter. Sources inside Richmond City Hall say after Ochei was already on the job, the...
View ArticleWilliams: Richmond needs better checks and balances
“I don’t think it’s unusual to hire people you’re familiar with if you’re trying to get a job done,” Marshall said in his interview with Beck. But when those hires blow up in your face, that...
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Richmond’s highest paid employee makes even more than you know
This past February, Marshall got a bonus check for nearly $26,700 thousand dollars. The extra earnings were never announced to the public and city council members were never told about it. Jones more...
View ArticleHOLMBERG: Historic canal wall must go back up, but why did it come down?
What remains a mystery – almost nine months later – is why any of the pre-Civil War wall was taken down and who hired the contractor, J. A. Liesfield of Rockville, to do the demolition on October 16th,...
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