Russell M. Anello

In the archive

• Interactive: Where Pandemic-Oversight Lawyers Went Next

Identity and role

Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President, Office of the White House Counsel (Biden administration), December 2022 – January 2025. (Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President , Office of the White House Counsel Biden administration, **December... (original: legistorm.com)) Before that, he was Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, named in its June 10, 2020 staff announcement, under Chairman James E. Clyburn.

Biography / career arc

• Prior service in the White House Counsel's Office, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and private practice. (committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture))
• Chief Oversight Counsel to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform under Chairman Elijah E. Cummings and Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, where he led investigations.
• June 2020: named Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. (committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture))
• December 2022 – January 2025: Deputy Counsel to the President in the Office of the White House Counsel. (Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President , Office of the White House Counsel Biden administration, **December... (original: legistorm.com))

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

The Subcommittee's June 10, 2020 staff announcement named Anello its Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel, alongside Staff Director and Senior Counsel David J. Hickton. The December 1, 2022 fintech-fraud staff report, "We Are Not the Fraud Police," was issued by the Subcommittee's majority staff. (Report: House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.) The report carries no individual signatures.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Anello later served in the White House Counsel's Office as Deputy Counsel to the President (December 2022 – January 2025). No later position appears in his public LegiStorm biography. (Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President , Office of the White House Counsel Biden administration, **December... (original: legistorm.com))

Additional public-record notes

Lobbying & industry ties

None located. Apart from private practice, which the committee release names without a firm, Anello's documented career is in government and oversight (House committees, HHS, the fiscal-responsibility commission, the White House Counsel's Office). No federal lobbying registration is associated with him.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

• Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President, Office of the White House Counsel Biden administration, **December...

Sources

• LegiStorm, Russell M. Anello biography — "Office of White House Counsel (Dec. 2022-Jan. 2025) … Deputy Counsel to the President" — Most recently Deputy Counsel to the President , Office of the White House Counsel Biden administration, **December... (original: legistorm.com)
• Chairman Clyburn announces Select Subcommittee staff (committee release; lists Anello's prior service and Deputy Staff Director/Chief Counsel role) — committee staff release (original: coronavirus.house.gov · stored capture)
• Report: "We Are Not the Fraud Police", House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, majority staff, Dec. 1, 2022.