The New York Times added White House confirmation to earlier reports by TechPresident.com and The Personal Democracy Forum that Vivek Kundra was back at work today as Federal CIO.
The reinstatement comes a few days after F.B.I. agents had raided his former office at the District of Columbia's technology department. Mr. Kundra was not a target of the raid. A former employee of his, Yusuf Acar, has been charged with bribery. The F.B.I. said that Mr. Kundra was not implicated in the bribery case, but he took a leave from his new federal job anyway.The three day leave will probably be remembered as among the shortest in federal government history, and reflects the Administration's attitude (if not always its actions) to err on the side of an abundance of caution.
Now, his challenge and opportunity is to make sufficient progress quickly to get out from the cloud not of his own making that he was the guy whose old offices were raided.
It will be harder from here but, at the very least, Kundra will be around to make the journey,
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