Spagnoletti

In a move that comes months late, Mayor Vince Gray will announce today that he’s selected former D.C. Attorney General Robert J. Spagnoletti to lead the new D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, reports the Post.

If confirmed by the D.C. Council, Spagnoletti will lead a three-person board that will oversee the new agency tasked with enforcing ethics rules across the D.C. government. The board was created as part of an overhaul of the city’s ethics rules that passed the council late last year. Gray will also announce two other picks for the board this morning:

In addition to Spagnoletti, Gray is nominating Laura Richards, a lawyer and former regulator, and Deborah Lathen, a consultant and former official with the Federal Communications Commission, to fill out the board.

Spagnoletti served under Mayor Anthony Williams from 2004 to 2006, and prior to that worked as the U.S. Attorney for D.C.’s chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence unit. (This 2004 MetroWeekly article is a good primer on Spagnoletti.) He’s currently a partner at Schertler & Onorato, L.L.P.