NYT: No Longer With I.R.S., Novitzky Joins F.D.A.

So much for the Al Capone metaphors. Meet the new enforcer of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act.

Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent whose investigation into performance-enhancing substances has exposed cheating in professional sports, left the Internal Revenue Service recently and joined the Food and Drug Administration to focus on the distribution of illegal drugs, according to an F.D.A. official and two lawyers who were briefed on the change.

Novitzky has joined the F.D.A. Office of Criminal Investigations as a special agent with all the same investigative powers he had during his 15 years with the I.R.S., the lawyers said.