Dunavant

Mike Dunavant, right, with former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions

 Photo: Department of Justice

Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury Jason Mumpower is hiring former federal prosecutor Mike Dunavant as chief investigative counsel.

Dunavant was the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Western District of Tennessee. Previously, he was the district attorney general in Tennessee’s 25th Judicial District for more than a decade. According to a release, Dunavant will work with Division of Investigations Director Jeff Puckett in “investigating allegations of fraud, waste and abuse in government and other publicly funded entities.”