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Nomination of Richard P. Kusserow To Be Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services

April 28, 1981

The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard P. Kusserow to be Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services.

Since 1969 Mr. Kusserow has been a special agent with the FBI. In 1969-70 he was assigned to the Pittsburgh Division and since 1970 has been assigned to the Chicago Division, specializing in white collar crime—embezzlement, bribery, and public corruption. Mr. Kusserow coordinated many task force investigations, including Department of Housing and Urban Development, real estate broker fraud, in 1978; Health, Education, and Welfare, welfare fraud, 1976; Veterans Administration, school fraud, 1975; and Housing and Urban Development, single family fraud, in 1974. In 1967-68 he was an intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Kusserow served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain in 1965-67. He was graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1963) and California State University (M.A., 1964).

Mr. Kusserow is married, has one child, and resides with his family in Aurora, Ill. He was born in San Jose, Calif., on December 9, 1940.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Richard P. Kusserow To Be Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247128

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