"Mr. Kundra has been informed that he is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation, and has been reinstated," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said via e-mail late Tuesday, in response to a query seeking confirmation of reports posted online by the Personal Democracy Forum's and The New York Times.

Kundra had been on leave since last Thursday, following the arrests of the D.C. IT department's acting chief security officer and the CEO of an outsourcing contractor on bribery and other charges. The arrests and a related raid on the District's IT offices took place as , a government IT conference in Washington, in his first major public appearance since being named federal CIO.

President Barack Obama's appointment of Kundra as the government's had been announced only a week prior to the arrests. There were no indications in court documents that Kundra knew anything about the alleged illegal activities, but the arrested IT staffer, Yusuf Acar, was a subordinate of Kundra's when the latter was the District's CTO.

Kundra's leave of absence had raised questions not only about his future as CIO but also about the direction of federal IT efforts. In the brief period between his appointment and the start of the leave, Kundra had articulated a that included turning federal agencies into IT innovators and using to make the government more transparent and open to the public.

Acar, meanwhile, returned to court today to seek a release from jail, where he has been held since his arrest. But a federal judge , citing arguments by prosecutors that he might try to flee the country if he was released.