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Obama's CIO Vivek Kundra on leave after FBI raid on DC office
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President Obama's newly appointed chief information officer Vivek Kundra is now on leave from the job after a raid by the FBI on his former District of Columbia government office. Two men were arrested in connection with the raid, according to the AP.
Kundra is not implicated in the case, which involves a District employee and a technology consutant who are accused of corruption. The men were arraigned in court Thursday:
At the court hearing, Yusuf Acar, the acting chief security officer in the city's technology office, was ordered held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors said $70,000 in cash was found during a search of Acar's Washington home and that he posed a serious flight risk.
Technology consultant Sushil Bansal of Dunn Loring, Va., was released but was ordered not to conduct overseas financial transactions or leave the Washington metropolitan area. Bansal is due back in court on April 21, and prosecutors said they were hopeful that a plea agreement could be reached in his case.
Acar worked for Kundra, who was recently picked by Obama to coordinate federal computer systems. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs would not say whether the White House knew the investigation was under way when it named Kundra last week, but called the case "a serious matter," AP reported.
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