District of Columbia: head of procurement for billion-dollar city agency found blitzed with bottle of cheap wine, charged with DUI

From Washington City Paper

J.W. Lanum, who is in charge of procurement for one of the city’s biggest agencies, pleaded guilty last month to a DUI charge. Lanum was sentenced to 30 days’ suspended sentence and six months of probation, according to an online docket report.

Emails and calls to Lanum and his boss at the Department of General Services, director Brian Hanlon, were not immediately returned. Police say they arrested Lanum last September after he was found asleep in a running car that was parked illegally outside DGS’ headquarters at 14th and U streets NW. Lanum “became irate and started to yell
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