Picked for chief performance officer, she failed to pay household help taxes

WASHINGTON - Nancy Killefer has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.
“She has withdrawn and we accepted her withdrawal,” a White House spokesman told reporters. The spokesman declined to comment on the reasons and said more information would come later.
The 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co. was expected to detail her reason for pulling out later Tuesday.

When her selection was announced by President Barack Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a more than $900 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.
Since then, administration officials have refused to answer questions about the lien, which she resolved five months after the lien was filed.
Two other Obama nominees have run into tax problems during their confirmation processes.