Politico reported on Sunday that President Obama will name Earl Devaney, an experienced fraud and white-collar crime investigator, to head a new board that will try to weed out waste and fraud from programs financed under the stimulus package:
The White House's Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board will be headed by Earl E. Devaney, a former fraud investigator and white-collar crime investigator for the Secret Service who is currently inspector general of the Interior Department.
A dozen investigators and analysts working for Devaney helped build a case against former lobbyist Jack Abramoff for corrupt dealings with Indian tribes. A New York Times editorial last fall heralded Devaney as “The Busiest Gumshoe Inside the Federal Bureaucracy.”
