President Trump has appointed veteran government attorney Don R. Berthiaume to serve as the Justice Department’s acting inspector general, a role overseeing internal investigations into fraud, waste, and abuse across the department and its agencies. His appointment takes effect at the end of the month.
Berthiaume, 51, spent a decade in the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office until 2020, where he helped uncover errors in the use of wiretaps during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and contributed to the inspector general’s review. He also co-authored a 2013 report examining dysfunction and partisan rifts inside the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
Berthiaume succeeds Michael Horowitz, his former boss and the last Senate-confirmed inspector general, who was appointed in June to lead the Federal Reserve Board’s Office of Inspector General.
