Joseph Persichini Jr., the former head of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. office who retired last year amid a cheating scandal, is now the Executive Director of the Washington D.C. Police Foundation.

Joseph Persichini Jr. (FBI)

The foundation is a nonprofit corporation of D.C. area business and civic leaders that works with the D.C. Police to promote public safety and support crime prevention programs.

Perischini, who joined the FBI in 1976, retired in December following controversy surrounding an open-book test he took last fall. The test — an exhaustive, open-book exam on the FBI’s guidelines for conducting investigations — is given to all FBI agents, who are required to certify that they took the test on their own.

Soon after the exam was administered in 2009, the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility launched an investigation into allegations that some FBI agents in the Washington Field Office allegedly took the exam together in violation of the rules.

Persichini was reportedly one of those under investigation after he completed the exam in less than 20 minutes and earned a very high score. The FBI’s OPR had recommended Persichini receive administrative disciplinary action, but he announced his retirement before the appeals process was completed.

In a report issued Monday, the DOJ’s Inspector General found that a “significant number” of FBI agents cheated on the test.

The news of Persichini’s job was first mentioned by the Washington Examiner in a story on the Inspector General’s report and later highlighted by the website Tickle The Wire.