Marathon Pundit: Another Obama appointment headache

Washington DC city government has a lovely Chicago-style bribery scandal cooking. The accused don't have any ties to the city, but the president does of course, and the man running that office until last week was Vivek Kundra. He's the new White House chief information officer. The Washtington Post explains:

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. The FBI has raided the technology office this morning and agents are continuing to search for evidence, sources said.

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."

Federal authorities this morning arrested a second person, Sushil Bansal, 41, of Fairfax County, in the sting operation this morning. According to his company's website, Bansal used to work in the D.C. government and later founded Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation, an information technology consulting firm based in the District. That company has several contracts with D.C. government agencies, including the technology office and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Last August, he was awarded the Association of Indians in America's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Kundra has not been accused of wrongdoing, but you have to wonder how long he'll be on the job looking at hexadecimal code.

More change I can't believe in...

As for Bansal, don't look for a repeat of his entrepreneur award.

Hat tip to Lance Burri.