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January 10, 2011 Jen Howard, (202) 418-0506 
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DAVID HUNT NAMED INSPECTOR GENERAL
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski 
announced the appointment of David Hunt as Inspector General, a position he has held on an acting basis 
since June 2009. 
“I am delighted that David will continue to serve in the important role of Inspector General to detect and 
prevent waste, fraud, and abuse,” said Chairman Genachowski. “During the time he served as Acting IG, 
David and his team have been instrumental in working with us to uncover millions of dollars of fraud in 
federally funded programs, and helping to obtain numerous indictments and criminal convictions 
nationwide.”
Mr. Hunt came to the Inspector General’s office in early 2006 as Assistant Inspector General for 
Investigations where he received the FCC's Gold Award and PCIE/ECIA Excellence in Investigations 
Award, the latter one of the highest individual awards given by the Association of Inspectors General.
From 1999-2006, he was a senior attorney in the FCC's Enforcement Bureau where he managed formal 
complaints and conducted investigations, including a two-year investigation of abuses within the 
Telecommunications Relay System. He joined the FCC in 1996 as an attorney-advisor in the Pricing 
Division of the former Common Carrier Bureau where he helped implement some of the most complex 
provisions of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.  Prior to the FCC he worked as a trial attorney at several 
national law firms in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California, representing major national 
corporations in complex anti-trust and regulatory proceedings. Prior to entering law school, he ran his 
own computer software programming company, building software and hardware systems for hospitals 
and health care related industries. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School (J.D.) and 
George Washington University (B.A.).
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