B. Chad Bungard

Mr. Bungard provides executive-level advice, guidance, and support to the Inspector General or her designee on key mission-critical OIG issues, initiatives, and functions. His duties and responsibilities include developing new, major policy directions, innovative programs not clearly delineated by statutory authority, and/or complex agency-wide policies, programs, and initiatives involving the OIG and/or one or more components of the Social Security Administration.

The Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight (OARO) supports the agency’s mission, goals, and service principles by reviewing program quality and effectiveness; making recommendations for program improvement using feedback from the adjudication of cases, predictive modeling, and advanced data analysis; coordinating the agency’s detection and prevention of fraud; and responding to recommendations of external monitoring authorities. As the Deputy Commissioner for Analytics, Review, and Oversight, I am directly responsible to the SSA Commissioner for carrying out the OARO mission and providing managerial direction to the major components of OARO. I supervise more than 2,000 employees, including 60 Administrative Appeals Judges and 8 Senior Executive Service employees. In particular, I supervise the executives, judges, and staff of the following offices within OARO, along with my immediate office: 1) The Office of Analytics and Improvements; 2) The Office of Anti-Fraud Programs; 3) The Office of Appellate Operations; 4) The Office of Quality Review; and, 5) The Office of Audits and Improper Payment Prevention. Represent the agency in meetings with White House and congressional staff on a routine basis. Other Responsibilities • Co-Chair, National Anti-Fraud Committee (SSA Inspector General Gail Ennis is the other Co-Chair). • Chair of the Improper Payments Oversight Board (IPOB).

B. Chad Bungard serves as the General Counsel for the Special Inspector General for the Trouble Asset Relief Program. Serve as the chief legal officer and legal representative for SIGTARP. Supervise several employees in the Office of the General Counsel. Provide executive leadership and independent, comprehensive legal services and counsel to the agency in many areas, including auditing, criminal and administrative investigations, legislation, regulations, Congressional relations, personnel, federal information law, appropriations law, federal procurement law, and ethics, among other areas. SIGTARP is a white-collar law enforcement agency. Its mission is to advance economic stability by promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of TARP management, through transparency, through coordinated oversight, and through robust enforcement against those who waste, steal, or abuse TARP funds. SIGTARP’s investigations have delivered substantial results and concern a wide-range of possible violations of the law, including bank fraud, loan fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements to the Government, securities fraud, and money laundering, among others.

Served as the chief legal advisor and chief legal representative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which is charged with preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in SSA programs and operations. Supervised fifteen employees in the Office of the Counsel to the Inspector General (OCIG). Provided executive leadership and independent authoritative legal advice and counsel to the Inspector General and senior staff on a wide variety of issues, including advice on criminal law, criminal investigative procedures and techniques, the legal implications of SSA OIG’s audit work, SSA program law, labor and employment law, ethics, tort law, contract and procurement law, federal information law, appropriations law, and legislation. Provided executive direction over staff attorneys providing legal advice, and litigation support to Assistant United States Attorneys, and to State government counterparts in criminal and civil litigation cases. Responsible for administering the Civil Monetary Penalty Program (CMP), including the proposed imposition of penalties and assessments, and the settlement and litigation of CMP cases. Exercised final responsibility for the CMP regulations and the development of operating policies and procedures for this program. Provided advice and support to OIG staff regarding personnel matters and directed, coordinated, and oversaw the litigation of OIG personnel actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and subsequent levels of appeal. Served as the first Whistleblower Protection Ombudsman for the entire agency (serving more than 65,000 employees). Served as the SSA OIG’s Deputy Ethics Counselor and conducted the SSA OIG's ethics program.

Served as the chief legal advisor and chief legal representative of the MSPB, a quasi-judicial federal agency largely responsible for hearing and adjudicating employee appeals of major disciplinary actions and appeals involving final determinations that affect the rights or interests of individuals under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS). Supervised fourteen full-time employees in the Office of General Counsel (OGC). Provided advice to the Board and its organizational components on matters of law arising in day-to-day operations. Oversaw the preparation of proposed decisions for the Board on assigned cases. Responsible for managing the MSPB’s heavy litigation docket in the United States district courts and courts of appeals in approximately 80 cases annually in appeals from Board decisions. Represented the MSPB in litigation and provided advice in employment matters. Represented the MSPB in labor relations matters. Coordinated the MSPB's legislative policy and Congressional relations and coordinated responses to requests for information from the White House and Congress. Oversaw the development of MSPB regulations. Served as the MSPB’s Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) and conducted the MSPB's ethics program. Planned and directed investigations pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978. Communicated with the media. Served as a member of the MSPB’s Performance Review Board.

Served as the Subcommittee Chairman’s chief legal advisor on all Subcommittee issues, which included issues relating to the federal civil service (including personnel, classification, compensation, benefits (including the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program and the Federal Retirement Thrift Savings Plan), retirement, and employee and labor relations), Executive Branch reorganization, health care policy, and retirement and labor generally. Responsible for managing a small staff and directing the formulation of the Subcommittee’s active agenda. Responsible for the development of policy and legislation on all Subcommittee matters. Responsible for overseeing the development and preparation of more than forty Subcommittee hearings and business meetings. Responsible for drafting more than a dozen pieces of legislation. Responsible for communicating with the media. Sat next to and consulted all chairmen during Subcommittee hearings and business meetings. Met with union leaders, lobbyists, associations, think tanks, nonprofit corporations, business corporations, various representatives from federal agencies, Congressmen, Senators, Presidential Appointees, and federal judges, including the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Roberts, the Comptroller General of the United States, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Deputy Director for Management at OMB, and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, among others, to discuss issues related to the Subcommittee. The Subcommittee also had specific jurisdiction over the Office of Government Ethics, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Office of Special Counsel, the Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, and the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Played an integral role in the passage of numerous pieces of legislation during the 108th Congress, including the GAO Human Capital Reform Act, among others.

Conducted oversight investigations on issues relating to the Executive Branch, including the Department of Justice and the FBI’s controversial use of informants and cooperating witnesses in organized crime prosecutions in Boston, the State Department’s role in performing the visa issuance function, and the Bush Administration’s restriction of Congressional access to Department of Justice records, and its assertions of executive privilege. Advised Committee Chairman, Chief Counsel, and Members of the Committee on substantive areas of the law, proposed changes of the law, and facts pertaining to investigations. Conducted fact-intensive interviews. Interviewed a convicted murderer, several former high-ranking FBI officials and various other government officials, among others. Prepared for nationally televised hearings regarding investigations. Assisted in legislative matters, including interpreting and responding to proposed legislation and assisting in the implementation of new legislation. Drafted legal and factual memoranda and congressional report regarding the Committee’s investigation of the Department of Justice and FBI’s mishandling of informants and cooperating witnesses in Boston.

Engaged in the general practice of law with an emphasis on federal civil litigation, including appellate practice, in areas of constitutional law, particularly in the specialized field of campaign finance and election law. Represented not-for-profit corporations, political action committees, state political parties, corporations, businesses, and candidates, such as a gubernatorial candidate. Responsible for all stages of litigation: drafted briefs, memoranda and motions; conducted depositions of state employees, academic experts, and high public officials, such as the AL Secretary of State and the NC House Majority Leader, among others; conducted general case management and client communications; and appeared in U.S. D. Ct. handling motions practice and merits hearings.