U.S. Commerce Department Inspector General Todd Zinser has accepted an invitation to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing about the federal fisheries law enforcement system, whose misdeeds — documented by his investigation — brought a sub-cabinet level contingent to Gloucester last week to issue an apology and distribute cash reparations.
Zinser's acceptance was confirmed to the Times by the office of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who — together with Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Delaware — organized the hearing of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security.
Carper, a Democrat, chairs the subcommittee, while Brown, is the ranking Republican.
The hearing will be held in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall on Monday, June 20 at 10 a.m., and the panel has called NOAA chief administrator Jane Lubchenco to testify. As of the weekend, Lubchenco had not yet responded to her invitation by the subcommittee.
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