More annals of the best and brightest. This is from MSNBC:

President Barack Obama's pick for Chief Information Officer may have pleaded guilty to a minor theft 12 years ago, another potential embarrassment for an administration that has been criticized for poor vetting.

Maryland court records show Vivek Kundra pleaded guilty to stealing less that $300 dollars in 1997, the business blog Valleywag reported.

Kundra was fined $500, of which $400 the court suspended, according to the court document. He received "supervised probation before judgment." That means that he can essentially say that he was not convicted of a crime, according to a Maryland legal blog.

Valleywag, part of the Gawker gossip site, matched Kundra's former address with the address on the court document that bore his name. Kundra's lawyer on that case did not respond to Gawker's request for comment. The White House has not commented on the accusation either.

Kundra, who would have been 23 at the time, is now on leave pending the outcome of a separate bribery investigation at his former job.