Law: Senator sniffs around college endowments...has new bloodhound on payroll

After Dean A. Zerbe resigned his post as senior counsel to Sen. Charles E. Grassley in February, the nonprofit world breathed a collective sigh of relief. The man responsible for the government’s sharpest scrutiny of nonprofit organizations was gone, and few observers believed his replacement would have the same chops.

Not so fast. This afternoon the Iowa senator, who is the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, announced Mr. Zerbe’s replacement: Theresa Pattara, a former IRS official who recently spent a year working closely with Mr. Zerbe on a variety of inquiries into the management and operation of nonprofit organizations. She also helped develop the IRS’s new 990 tax form.Read more about it in the Chronicle of Higher Education.