How a Federal Agent Helped a Struggling Taco Restaurant Turn a Profit
Audra De Vera's investigative skills helped her solve the mystery of why the taco joint wasn't doing well. Then, she fixed it.
by Jason Daley
Mar 01, 2015
2 minutes
It wasn’t an accident that Audra De Vera became an agent for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She’d spent her entire adult life training for the job, and she was good at it.
For five years, she ran task forces, testified in court and scoured ledgers searching for complex financial fraud. But the work meant being away from home five days per week. The government sequester and
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