A fired District city employee has filed a $10 million whistleblower lawsuit alleging he was terminated because he would not steer contracts to one of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s largest campaign contributors.
The suit filed Monday in D.C. Superior Court by Yinka T. Alao is the latest accusation that a recent shakeup at the Department of General Services was political retaliation by the mayor’s office.
Alao, the agency’s former chief procurement officer, alleges City Administrator Rashad Young orchestrated his firing in August after he refused to reconsider denying two multimillion contracts to Fort Myer Construction, a major Bowser donor.
Another fired employee involved in the contracts, Carlos M. Sandoval, made similar allegations last week in a filing with the District’s Office of Employee Appeals.
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