LSC Board of Directors Appoints Tom Yatsco to Inspector General
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WASHINGTON—The Legal Services Corporation's (LSC) Board of Directors has named Tom Yatsco as the new Inspector General starting on April 25, 2023. Yatsco comes to LSC from the advisory and consulting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he has served as a Specialist Leader, helping public-sector clients handle monitoring, compliance and internal audit fraud prevention.
Yatsco will lead LSC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in achieving its two principal missions: to assist management in identifying ways to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the activities and operations of LSC and its grantees; and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse.
"We are delighted to appoint Tom as LSC's new Inspector General," said LSC Board Chairman John Levi. “He brings with him wide-ranging experience and industry expertise that will help our terrific IG staff and ensure that LSC and its grantees continue to be exemplary stewards of taxpayer dollars."
Prior to Deloitte, Yatsco spent over 20 years in the federal accountability community, predominantly at federal grant-making agencies. From 2016 to 2022, he served as the Assistant Inspector General for Audit and Evaluation at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In that position he functioned as the head of audit for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation. He led a global workforce of over 120 people in producing oversight products that won numerous Council of the Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) awards for excellence.
Before his time at USAID, Yatsco served as the Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the Smithsonian Institution and spent nearly 10 years in leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) OIG. At DOT OIG, he led his teams in providing oversight responses to many key events in the transportation sector, including implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 9/11 reconstruction in New York City, state and local recovery activities related to Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, and responses to the Interstate-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota and the tunnel collapse in Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project (“the Big Dig”). He and his teams won numerous CIGIE awards for their work, including the Alexander Hamilton Award, as well as Secretary of Transportation awards.
Yatsco started his oversight career at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 1999. At GAO, he worked on a variety of congressionally requested audits, including the District of Columbia governance and fiscal integrity, state and local governments’ use of Master Tobacco Settlement funds and health care delivery reforms at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
He has a B.A. from Youngstown State University and an M.A. from Kent State University in Ohio.
Additional information about LSC’s Office of the Inspector General is available here.