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DEC Deputy Director

Henry S. Czauski is the Deputy Director (and is currently serving as the Acting Director) of the Departmental Enforcement Center. He joined the DEC in that capacity in November 2004. Before that, from 2002-2004, he was HUD's Regional Counsel for New York and New Jersey. Prior to his appointment as Regional Counsel, he held positions as Senior Attorney/Satellite Office Coordinator in OGC's Office of Program Enforcement, providing legal services to the Departmental Enforcement Center; Chief Counsel for the New Jersey State Office; Chief Counsel for the Washington, D.C. Field Office; Associate Regional Counsel in the Denver Office; Senior Attorney in the Headquarters Office of Assisted Housing and Community Development; and Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Finance and Administrative Law. He is admitted to practice before the New Jersey Supreme Court; the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; and the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been with HUD's Office of General Counsel since September 1979.

Director of the Operations Division

Rebecca Holtz Shank is the Operations Division Director in the Departmental Enforcement Center (DEC). She joined the DEC in December 2000. She served as Acting Office Director of the Office of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Single Family Housing from August 1999 until December 2000. She was the Director of the RESPA/Interstate Land Sales Division from August 1996 until December 2000. Prior to her work in Housing, Becky started her HUD career in the Office of General Counsel, first in the Office of Litigation, and then for seven years in the Office of Program Compliance where she was the senior RESPA enforcement attorney. She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law and Mount Holyoke College.

Director of the Compliance Division

James M. Beaudette is Director of the DEC's Compliance Division. In 1999, he began his career at HUD with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Housing Fraud Initiative in Los Angeles. After transferring to OIG's Atlanta office, in 2002, he was appointed Special Agent in Charge in Los Angeles. Before joining HUD, he supervised investigations for the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management in California and Northern Nevada. Prior to that, he worked as a US Border Patrol Field Operations Supervisor working cross-border smuggling cases with Operation Alliance, a multi-agency taskforce in El Paso, TX. He transferred to Operation Alliance from a liaison position to the Office of the Vice-President where he was assigned to the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System. While there, his work related to the utilization of national intelligence assets for tactical law enforcement use. He also assisted in the establishment of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in areas related to land border interdiction. He began his civilian Federal career in Yuma, AZ as a Border Patrol Agent.