February 2015: Designated Acting Under Secretary for TFI

DOCUMENTED

The April 16, 2015, White House announcement of Szubin’s intended nomination includes a biographical paragraph. It states that he had been OFAC director since 2006 and, concurrently, “serves as the Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes at Treasury, a position to which he was designated in February 2015.”

That sentence is the White House’s. This site does not invent an earlier or later designation date. Congress.gov later treats the under-secretary nomination as PN371. Acting service is not Senate confirmation. The full Senate never confirmed him.

Sources

White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts,” Apr. 16, 2015. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

Congress.gov, PN371 — Adam J. Szubin — Department of the Treasury, 114th Congress. www.congress.gov

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

Acting. Not confirmed. They ran the terrorism-finance shop on a designation and then asked the Senate to make it permanent after the Iran deal was already the product.