Steve A. Linick
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Inspector General for fraud and abuse, seemingly without rocking the boat too much.
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Steven Alan Linick [1]) (born 1963)[2] is an American attorney and State Department official who was Inspector General of the Department of State and led the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State.[3] In 2013, he was nominated by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate.[4][5] Linick was removed from office by Donald Trump on May 15, 2020, effective in 30 days per federal law, with Stephen Akard appointed acting inspector general in the interim.[6][7][8]
Official narrative
Linick has a BA (1985) and MA (1990) in Philosophy, and a JD (1990); all from Georgetown University.
Linick was an Assistant United States Attorney in California (1994-1999) and Virginia (1999-2006). He was also both Executive Director of the Department of Justice’s National Procurement Fraud Task Force and Deputy Chief of its Fraud Section, Criminal Division (2006-2010). During his tenure at the Department of Justice, he supervised and participated in white-collar criminal fraud cases involving, among other things, corruption and contract fraud against the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He began his tenure as the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors on September 30, 2013. Prior to his appointment, he served for three years as the first Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (2010-2013). As Inspector General, Linick was the senior official responsible for audits, inspections, evaluations, investigations, and other law enforcement efforts to combat fraud, waste, and abuse within or affecting the operations of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
He was responsible for providing oversight to more than 70,000 Department of State and U.S. Agency for Global Media employees, 270 overseas missions and other facilities worldwide, and more than $70 billion in Department of State, U.S. Agency for Global Media, and foreign assistance resources.[9]
Linick’s memberships have included: the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Taskforce; the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s (CIGIE) Investigations Committee; the Council of the Inspectors General on Financial Oversight; and the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group. Linick currently is co-chair of the Suspension and Debarment Working Group of the CIGIE. In December 2014, Linick was appointed Associate Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led overseas contingency operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Report on retaliation
In 2019, Linick produced a widely read report in which he found that Trump administration officials were retaliating against career diplomats based on politics rather than merit. The report highlighted five examples.[10][11]
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmYsFKcK8e8
- ↑ https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/linick-steve-a
- ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/politics/steve-linick-state-department-inspector-general/index.html
- ↑ https://www.congress.gov/nomination/113th-congress/636
- ↑ https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/27/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts
- ↑ https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1261483732952891393/photo/1
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/16/steve-linick-state-department-official-investigating-pompeo-is-fired
- ↑ https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3084697/trump-fires-us-state-department-inspector-general
- ↑ https://www.stateoig.gov/about/IG
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/13/trump-aides-state-department-staffers-070419
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/state-department-inspector-general-fired-261536
