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Obama's chief information officer on leave after FBI raid

WASHINGTON-An employee of the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer and a private contractor were charged with corruption Thursday after an FBI raid at the former office of one of President Obama's appointees,Vivek Kundra. Kundra is on leave from his White House job until further details of the case become known, a White House source tells the Associated Press.Kundra has not been linked to Thursday's raid.Yusuf Acar, 40, acting chief security officer of the D.C. Office of the CTO, was charged with bribery of a public official, money laundering, wire fraud and conflict of interest.Acar was ordered held without bond until a hearing Tuesday.FBI agents found $70,000 in Acar's Northwest D.C. home when they arrested him Thursday morning.Acar, a native of Turkey, is responsible for buying D.C.'s computer equipment and hiring contract workers for various D.C. agencies. Acar, who has been with the agency since December 2004, has an annual salary of $127,468, according to charging documents.Sushil Bansal, President and CEO of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC) and a former D.C. government employee, was charged with bribery of a public official, money laundering, wire fraud and conflict of interest.Bansal, 41, was released but ordered not to engage in overseas financial transactions and had to surrender his passport. Bansal, of Dunn Loring, Va., is due back in court on April 21.Government records show Bansal, a native of India, is not a U.S. citizen and holds an H-1B visa,which is given to foreign workers in specialty occupations. Authorities say Acar and Bansal, along with others, used a variety of schemes to defraud the D.C. government, including billing the District for inventory that was never delivered and billing "ghost" contract employees who never worked.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
By Mark Segraves, WTOP Radio
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