Inspector General of Treasury to Resign

Valerie Lau, the Treasury Department’s besieged chief watchdog, accused by congressional investigators of violating federal contracting law, said she would resign in March. Inspector General Lau, who also was under fire from Republicans in Congress for her office’s investigation of two Secret Service agents, said she would leave after her office issues its audit of the department’s financial statements. She has held the position since December 1994. Earlier, she was an executive at the Office of Personnel Management.