On Tuesday morning, Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag used public records to match Kundra's former address in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to the address listed in a public case record for a Vivek Kundra who pleaded guilty in 1997 to an unspecified theft of less than US$300. Valleywag has a of the case record.

The Vivek Kundra listed in the case pleaded guilty and received what's called a . As explained by the , a PBJ is generally not considered a conviction.

Kundra is already wrangling with the fallout from another, much larger criminal case brought against a former employee. Last Thursday, FBI agents Kundra's former office at the District of Columbia's IT department. Kundra wasn't a target of the raid. A former subordinate of his, Yusuf Acar, has been charged with bribery.

The FBI has made clear that Kundra is not implicated in the bribery case, but Kundra has taken leave from his federal gig to keep President Obama's administration from being dragged into the mud.

If the theft charge turns out to be his, it may force the resignation of a man who once made Infoworld's Top 25 CTO's list, a manager widely regarded as being to tackle the supersize office politics of America's federal IT departments.