Mr. De Mello currently serves as a Trial Attorney for the Tax Division at the Department of Justice where he manages all aspects of complex, affirmative, and defensive litigation in United States District and Bankruptcy courts. He has been on detail to the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Homeland Security as a Senior Special Counsel since October 2019.
Mr. De Mello received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his juris doctorate from Columbia Law School.Pat Mullarkey, retired Chief of the Northern Region Section, said on his Facebook page:
Andrew De Mello, a trial attorney in the Northern Region civil trial section of the Tax Division, DOJ, who has been on detail to the Inspector General for Homeland Security for the past year and one-half, was nominated by President Trump on Friday to be the Inspector General for the Department of Education. If there is a problem there, Andrew will find it, assuming he is confirmed.With that praise, let's hope he is confirmed.
Note: In my original posting, I said that the announcement was of the nomination. I was corrected that it was only announcement of an intention to nominate. I am not sure of the normal routine for such announcements -- whether, after announcement of intention to nominate, there is a material delay in the actual nomination or its announcement, or whether some nominations are not made after announcement of intention to nominate. In any event, this seems to be a case where the nomination should be made.
