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Personnel Announcement
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 14, 2008

Personnel Announcement

ÿÿWhite House News


President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate one
individual to serve in his Administration.

The President intends to nominate Neil M. Barofsky, of New York, to be
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program at the
Department of the Treasury. He currently serves as an Assistant United
States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief of the
Mortgage Fraud Group. Prior to this, he served as a lead prosecutor in the
Southern District's Securities Fraud Unit. Previously, he served in the
Southern District's International Narcotics Trafficking Unit. Mr. Barofsky
earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and his
JD from the New York University School of Law.

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