Stimulus Accountability Czar – Earl Devaney

Stimulus Accountability Czar – Earl Devaney

Title: Chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board

Salary: unknown

Reports to: Vice President Biden

Appointed: February 2009

Agency that might have handled similar issues: OMB

• Leads oversight board that monitors money spent by the stimulus package

• Experience: Inspector General at the Interior Department (1999 to present); Director of criminal enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency (1991 to 1999); Special Agent at the Secret Service (1970 to 1991)

• During his tenure at Interior, uncovered the shady dealings of disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an investigation that eventually led to Abramoff’s imprisonment and the resignation of Interior’s no. 2, J. Steven Griles, for lying under oath about his own role in the scandal.

• On July 8, 2009, the U.S. General Services Administration issued a press release announcing an $18 million contract for a new recovery.gov web site, which quoted Devaney as saying, “We are pleased that another major milestone has been achieved."

(SOURCE: List of Obama Czars by Glenn Beck
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Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens.

Believes in Open Borders to Mexico.

Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .