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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 27, 2020

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a panel of two dozen federal inspectors general charged with coordinating oversight of the coronavirus relief effort, has named Robert Westbrooks as its director. Westbrooks, a certified public accountant and an attorney, previously served as inspector general of a federal retirement benefit program, and has held senior positions at the Small Business Administration, Department of Transportation and U.S. Postal Service. The committee is also being led by acting chair Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, Politico reports. In addition to naming its leadership, the group unveiled a website that catalogues its ongoing review of the federal response and provides an option to submit allegations of waste, fraud, abuse or retaliation against whistleblowers; feedback about the government's response; and a clearinghouse for all U.S. attorney statements and filings related to the pandemic.