Just two weeks after Obama “Green” czar Van Jones was forced to resign amid revelations that he sympathized with 9/11 conspiracy theories, another Obama czar has become embroiled in scandal. An investigative reporting workshop at American University revealed that Obama Healthcare Policy Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle has served on the board of numerous healthcare companies responsible for defrauding the Medicare system.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University…

In touting DeParle’s accomplishments when he appointed her in March, Obama didn’t mention the lucrative private-sector career she built since September 2000, when she left her government job running Medicare for the Clinton administration. Records show she earned more than $6.6 million since early 2001, according to a tally by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

And the public wasn’t told that much of that corporate career was built at companies that have frequently had to defend themselves against federal investigations. After leaving government, DeParle accepted director positions at half a dozen companies suspected of violating the very laws and regulations she had enforced for Medicare. Those companies got into further trouble on her watch as a director. Now she’s back in government as a leading voice in deciding the shape of health care reform. As director of the White House Office of Health Reform, DeParle is the point person in pushing for the administration’s plans for changing health care and the ways Americans pay for it — changes in which her former companies have a great deal at stake…

Five of the corporations whose boards DeParle served on have paid a total of $566 million since 2003 to settle fraud or product liability cases, often involving tax dollars paid by Medicare.

The study was sponsored in part by MSNBC, but we tip our hats the investigative reporters that spent many months looking into the connection between Ms. DeParle’s private sector career and her role in healthcare reform.