FBI Raids Office of Obama Appointee; UPDATE: One Official Arrested in Bribery Sting

Damn, it's a shame Rush Limbaugh is off today. He could point out another possible Obama failure.

Federal agents this morning are searching the Judiciary Square office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer.

The search is part of "an ongoing investigation," said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said. She declined to comment further.

The outgoing Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, was appointed last week Chief Information Officer by the Obama administration. His last day at the city government office was February 4, a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Leslie Kershaw, said.

"We know the FBI is over there but that's all we know," said a staffer in the D.C. CTO's office, Mario Field, who was working from a separate location. Another source familiar with the raid said the FBI had sent all staffers other than senior executives home for the day.

Kundra was responsible for starting up the recovery.gov site.

Not clear what this is all about, but perhaps someone realized he tried to donate more than the legal amount to Obama's campaign. Although that's probably a stretch considering the rampant campaign abuses of the Obama campaign.

Update: WTOP reports an official by the name of Yusuf Acar is in custody.

An official in the D.C.'s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, sources tell WTOP.
Sources tell WTOP 40-year-old Yusuf Acar was taken into custody Thursday morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest D.C.

The FBI is now serving a search warrant at the office of D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer, WTOP has learned.

"We are there as part of a continuing ongoing criminal investigation," FBI Washington Field Office spokesperson Katherine Schweit tells WTOP.

Schweit would not comment on the details of the investigation.

More here.

An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.

Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said. The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."

Acar serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the District's chief technology officer. Kundra recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.

Update: The WaPo link has been updated. Now there is another arrest reported.

Yusuf Acar, 40, was taken into custody this morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest Washington, the sources said.

Sushil Bansal, a former city employee and a contractor with the technology office, also has been arrested.

The nature of the charges could not be determined. Channing Phillips, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment on the arrest, saying the case "is under seal."

Acar, who has worked for the city since 2004, serves as an information systems security officer in the D.C. government and earns $127,468. He worked for Vivek Kundra, the city's chief technology officer, who recently left D.C. government to become President Obama's federal chief information officer.

Bansal is president and chief executive of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. According to the AITC Web site, the company received last year several city contracts, including at least one with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

According to D.C. Council records, Bansal's company was awarded a $10 million, one-year contract in June to provide "information technology services, equipment and software." Payment, however, was to based on task orders and delivery, meaning the company would not necessarily receive the entire $10 million.

Seems as if this might be the same Sushil Bansal.