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Glenn S. Gerstell, of Washington, D.C., who has bundled at least $50,000 for the 2012 campaign, was appointed as a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Commission on Sept. 9, 2011, according to White House records.

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/01/31/8061/obamas-bundler-total-exceeds-74-million

Throughout his 39-year career at Milbank, Mr. Gerstell demonstrated a commitment to public service on the city, national, and international levels. President Obama appointed him to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which makes recommendations to the president and executive branch on security threats to infrastructure nationwide. Mr. Gerstell also serves on the District of Columbia Homeland Security Commission, which provides oversight of the District’s emergency response and homeland security capabilities. He earlier chaired the board of directors of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority.

He is also a member of the

Council on Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council;

a trustee of the non-partisan Federal City Council, which focuses on Washington, DC, city issues; a director of

Trickle Up,

a New York-based charity that works on solutions to extreme poverty worldwide; and is the only non-diplomat elected as a member of The American Academy of Diplomacy (for which he served as outside counsel for over two decades while at Milbank).

https://www.milbank.com/en/news/former-milbank-partner-glenn-gerstell-appointed-general-counsel.html

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>>3011212

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Glenn S. Gerstell, Chairman, Board of Directors,

DC Water and Sewer Authority

"Friday, March 5, 2004

Good Morning Chairman Davis and Members of the Committee. I am Glenn Gerstell, Chairman of the Board of the Directors of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA). I am pleased to be here to provide testimony about WASA's past, current and future endeavors relative to the Lead Replacement Program, and the issue of elevated lead levels in some homes of District residents.

It goes without saying that this issue is of widespread interest, and this is another excellent opportunity to set the record straight on what we are doing about it. I want to assure you that providing safe and clean drinking water to our community is our highest priority. We are vitally concerned with taking the necessary actions to assure public safety in this regard. There are four critical areas I wish to cover today and, of course, answer any questions you and Members of the Committee may have. But before I do that I want to make one key point clear that has been a little fuzzy in the news reports - WASA provides the water, we do not produce it.

WASA is responsible for distributing drinking water safely through our 1,300 miles of water mains under the streets of the District to individual houses and buildings, as well as to several federal facilities directly across the Potomac in Virginia. It is the US Army Corps of Engineers, through the Washington Aqueduct, that draws the water from the Potomac, filters and chemically treats it to meet EPA specifications. While WASA of course works cooperatively and closely with the Washington Aqueduct, treatment issues are ultimately their responsibility."

Watch the water?

http://www.dcwatch.com/wasa/040305e.htm

>>3011391

WASA Whistle-Blower Wins Vindication, Reinstatement

" A water quality manager fired by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority in 2003 was ordered reinstated and awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars yesterday by a judge who said she was improperly terminated after warning federal authorities about excessive lead in the District's tap water.

Seema S. Bhat, who had worked for WASA for four years, had "become an unwelcome whistle-blower" after informing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that lead in the city's drinking water had risen above federal limits, according to a 186-page ruling by Stuart A. Levin, an administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Labor.

"By reaching out to EPA, she forced the lead issue to the forefront of her supervisor's agenda, and shortly thereafter, he recommended that she be fired," Levin wrote of Bhat.

Under the terms of Levin's ruling, WASA must pay Bhat $50,000 in compensatory damages and $10,000 in exemplary damages, as well as the back pay based on her salary of just over $73,000 a year, benefits, interest and attorneys fees and court costs.

The costs for WASA could total more than $500,000, said Bhat's attorney, Bryan J. Schwartz of the D.C. firm Passman & Kaplan.

"This is a great victory for Ms. Bhat, but also for the people of D.C.," Schwartz said. "It shows that [WASA] will have its feet held to the fire if it fails to provide service in a safe manner and violates the law set forth for people's protection."

Bhat, 59, who lives in Columbia, has been unemployed since her firing, Schwartz said. Although Bhat has sought work, she has had trouble because she was terminated and because she works in a specialized field, Schwartz added.

WASA Board Chairman Glenn S. Gerstell and a spokesman for General Manager Jerry N. Johnson declined to comment, saying they had not seen the ruling.

Although WASA was aware of the

lead problem as early as 2002,

the contamination, which affected thousands of homes, was not made public until a Washington Post story disclosed the results of the agency's tests in January 2004. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202940.html?noredirect=on