Biographical Sketch
Brian L. Haaser
Brian Haaser is currently the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Region, Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this position, he is responsible for managing the investigative program for OIG, in 14 States and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Haaser has been a criminal investigator with OIG, USDA from 1979 to the present. His career began with OIG in its Western Regional Office in San Francisco, California. He was worked in a variety of investigative and supervisory positions throughout the organization and in three different OIG Regions and OIG Headquarters located in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Haaser has extensive experience in conducting and supervising criminal investigations regarding USDA related programs to include feeding programs for the poor; loan and insurance programs for farmers and businesses; regulatory programs affecting the meat and poultry industry, illegal import of agriculture products and pests, and illegal activities involving the grading and wholesomeness of agricultural products; and crimes affecting USDA personnel to include bribery, embezzlement and assault.
He also has investigative experience in the realm of biological issues facing agriculture. He was part of an OIG team that spent 10 days in England (July 2001) during the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak studying the criminal investigative issues associated with such an outbreak, worked with USDA and State agencies on emergency response plans to biological outbreaks affecting agriculture, participated in numerous multi-agency biological farm disaster simulations and assisted in the development of OIG’s biological investigative emergency response team.
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