Two other contractors, Justin Ewald and Sibin Peter, were also let go and their systems seized at the same time. I met and worked with both a few times. Justin struck me as apolitical (in the “office politics” sense) and highly competent. However both were Brian’s chief lieutenants, in that he pulled them into whatever project he was involved with–they made him look good. Sibin was also extremely highly paid, having billed the City for over $800,000 in the last five years. (Brian Anderson was well over $1,000,000)

Note that there’s still one other person who was released; I don’t have their full name confirmed so I’m not releasing it yet. This person oversaw contracting for all of PWE, which makes sense. There was rampant employee speculation that a major portion of the scam was that Brian Anderson actually owned the consulting company providing these people to PWE. This might just be BS, but it was widely known among people familiar with the billing modernization project that there seemed to be a great deal of padding going on. One example: just last week UCS was just provided with a $165/hr. contractor to remote-lecture employees on a feature of the new system that they’re already aware of and have been using during tests. She billed the city for 15 hours. The conference was perhaps two hours, and at least one employee reportedly walked out in disgust.

I love the smell of napalm at City Hall. I’ll settle for it down the road at 611 Walker and 4200 Leeland.

The people named in the above post, Cymel Ashby and Brian Anderson, along with another person in procurement (name pending), were escorted out of their offices in the above buildings at 4:30 pm today. Their computers were seized by the Office of Inspector General.

This was said to be a very popular action at 4200 Leeland. No word on whether any jigs were danced at 611 Walker, though.