(Washington Post) — Businessman Sinclair Skinner, whose engineering company made about $900,000 last year for work on city parks and recreation centers, continued to demonstrate a poor recollection of his own business dealings in a second appearance Wednesday in a special D.C. Council probe into parks contracts. Skinner, a friend and fraternity brother of Mayor […]
(Washington Examiner) — D.C.’s attorney general interceded to keep a friend and fraternity brother of Mayor Adrian Fenty off a list of those banned from doing business with the city, the Washington Examiner has learned. Contracting officials drafted a letter that would have barred Sinclair Skinner from city contracts, but Attorney General Peter Nickles, a longtime […]
(Washington Business Journal) — Sinclair Skinner, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s close friend and magnet for controversy, employed no one in his engineering firm, including himself, who was qualified to perform the work on the D.C. recreation projects for which the company was hired, Skinner said Thursday in long-awaited testimony before the D.C. Council. Skinner owns Liberty […]