WaPo’s Meagan Flynn: “A D.C. jury has awarded a former city government employee more than $3 million in damages after finding that she was fired after raising concerns about alleged illegal contracting as a whistleblower.

“Maureen Hill, a former official in the Office of Contracting and Procurement, was fired in April 2017 — just months after she identified to her bosses and an internal watchdog what she believed was improper contract-splitting at the agency, according to court documents.

“The D.C. government argued that Hill’s termination had nothing to do with the complaints she raised about those issues and that she was instead fired for poor performance.

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