The Interior Department’s top internal watchdog, who oversaw the multiple investigations that contributed to the resignation of former Secretary Ryan Zinke, will retire from the agency next month
Kendall will step down in May and take the position of deputy inspector general at Amtrak, Interior Office of Inspector General spokesperson Nancy DiPaolo told POLITICO. Kendall had reached retirement age and was stepping down voluntarily, she added.Interior’s investigations into Zinke are continuing, DiPaolo told POLITICO.
Kendall’s position at the IG’s office had briefly come under question last year after Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary Ben Carsonannouncing that Suzanne Tufts, his own assistant secretary of administration, would take over as Interior’s inspector general. Though Tufts never joined Interior's team, Carson’s email raised concerns about potential political interference into the investigations Kendall was carrying out on Zinke’s
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