Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General John V. Kelly will retire from his place efficient June 10, the Office of Inspector General confirmed Monday.
Deputy Inspector General Jennifer Costello will assume the role of performing inspector general, in accordance to a press release from the DHS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) shared with The Hill by a spokesperson.
“I knowledgeable OIG workers this morning that I intend to retire, efficient at this time. I accelerated my retirement as a result of I really feel it’s in the very best curiosity of the group and its workers,” Kelly mentioned within the assertion.
“As I instructed the workers, I’ve really loved my 11-year tenure with the DHS OIG, a corporation with an important mission and extraordinary workers and managers that efficiently execute that mission each day.”
Kelly’s retirement comes every week after a Washington Post report that he had overridden auditors who discovered points with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) response to disasters.