Dear Community,

While Irvin Nathan, Attorney General of the District of Columbia, sued Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr.

for allegedly stealing city funds (300,000.00) earmarked for youth-baseball programs, Mr. Nathan turned

the blind eye to contract steering at the Office of the Attorney General (GAG) Child Support Services

Division (CSSD).

Benidia Rice, OAG Director of Child Support Services, gave a sole source contract (totaling 5 Million) toher long time friend, Donald Ulrich of RSIEnterprises. RSI Enterprises, Inc. is located at 3838 N Central

Ave, Ste 1700, Phoenix, AZ 85012. The officers include' Christian Ulrich, Donald Ulrich, 'Sharon Ulrich and

Theresa Smith. Coincidently, Donald Ulrich, Benidia Rice, Christian Ulrich and Sharon Ulrich all attended

Arizona State University. During Ms. Rice's employment with the state of Arizona's Child Support Office,

Ms. Rice and Mr. Donald Ulrich were both appointed to Arizona state government positions and boards.

Ms. Rice had a contract with RSI Enterprises Inc. when she served as the Director of the Department of

Economic Security, Division of Child Support Enforcement for Arizona. Ms. Rice has contracted several

Offices of the Attorney General, Child Support Enforcement Division, job functions to various

contractors. She has a long history of contracting out. It only leads one to think, "What is her payoff"?

Nevertheless the District of Columbia's Office of the Attorney General's Child Support Services Division is

in complete chaos. Case processing is at the lowest point since 1982. Ms. Rice has created a mass

confusion in processing cases and she regularly receives complaints for her arrogance and incompetency

as a Director. Also, establishment cases are being returned from the Legal Services Section of CSSDand

DC Superior Court on a daily basis.

The seamless process for contempt motions and paternity/support establishment cases that once

moved effortless through the legal system has halted. Motion for contempts, which summons the non

custodian parent to court, has ceased. Requests for contempt motions are returned to the case worker

for unexplained reasons. Establishment cases are passed back and forth like ping-pong balls. Workers

have been ordered to tamper with legal court documents. Recently, a section chief faced court action

and possible disbarment. She was detailed to another section in OAG because she failed to properly

review cases. TheJ~~£j~J8.yJ~Aqp1;.nt has questioned the decrease in the total caseload of once150,000 to now 50,000 since Ms. Rice's 8 year tenure. Child Support Federal funds are spread though

out the Office of the Attorney General, violating the policy of the federally funded programs. In other

words, the Attorney General, Irvin Nathan, is misappropriating child support federal funds through

filtering non-child support related employment opportunities throughout OAG and for other non-child

support related use.

This chaotic atmosphere is purposely created to justify contracting out various job functions.

Management's primary goal is to get paid. It's unfortunate that the children and the parents are ponds

in their game of contract kick- backs. Management wants to add to their small six figure salaries at the

child's expense. To add insult to injury the top salary managers of the child support program are as

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follows: Benidia Rice 149,913.00, Joseph Allen 136,763.00, Cory Chandler 122,720.00, Walter Howell

110,000.00, Curtis Staley, 100,158.00 and Tonya Jones-Bosier 101,920.00. In addition, OAG's top

official's salaries are as follows: Irvin Nathan 185,000.00, Eugene Adams 158,999.00, Nadine Wilburn

155,653.00 and Tarifah Coaxum 147,580.00.

The top officials are being paid exorbitant salaries (combined salaries totaling 1,337,547.00) while the

custodial Parents, non-custodial parents, and most importantly, the children are given inadequate

services. You cannot blame the child support workers, since management hinders their ability to

produce. Please! Please! Demand Mayor Gray, City Council, Congress woman Eleanor Holmes-Norton

and the Federal Child Support Office to take action today.

Children for Justice

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