Brian D. Miller
The United States Senate confirmed Brian D. Miller as the Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration on July 22, 2005. As Inspector General, Mr. Miller directs nationwide audits and investigations of federal procurement involving GSA. Mr. Miller is also a member of the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency and participates in the U.S. Department of Justice Hurricane Katrina Task Force. On October 10, 2006, Mr. Miller was named Vice-Chair of the National Procurement Fraud Task Force, a U.S. Department of Justice task force. Mr. Miller played a leading role in developing a new requirement for contractors to report overpayments and crimes, included in the Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act of 2008.
In 2007, Mr. Miller was recognized by Ethisphere magazine as the 12th “most influential person in business ethics” by a worldwide panel of experts. In July 2008, Mr. Miller was named among “Those Who Dared: 30 Officials who Stood Up for Our Country,” a special report of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a national advocacy organization. In October 2008, Mr. Miller received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award.
Mr. Miller has served in a variety of senior-level positions in the federal government for nearly two decades. From January 2002 to July 2005, Mr. Miller served as the Counsel to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. As part of the leadership team, he participated in the senior management and the establishment of initiatives and priorities of the office.
For over twelve years, Mr. Miller was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he participated in many notable cases, including terrorism prosecutions. Additionally, Mr. Miller was selected to be part of the legal team representing former Attorney General John Ashcroft in a series of lawsuits filed by individuals detained in connection with investigations of the events of September 11, 2001. The Department of Justice also asked Mr. Miller to take over a prosecution in another district that was in jeopardy because of the misconduct of the lead investigator. Part of Mr. Miller’s mandate in that case was "to investigate the investigation."
As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Miller supervised complex audits and investigations involving procurement, grant and healthcare fraud. He prosecuted one of the first and largest science fraud cases, U.S. v. Excel Corp. et al., for which he received the Director's Award from the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
Mr. Miller has also served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel on Health Care Fraud and represented the United States at treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, on matters relating to health care. He began his career in private practice and earned his law degree from the University of Texas.