Ernst: DOJ needs to investigate FDIC chairman…

WASHINGTON – Following yesterday’s report on the culture of misconduct at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) continued to call for the resignation of Chairman Martin Gruenberg and called on President Biden to open an office at the Justice Department to order an investigation with real consequences.

View her full remarks here.

Background:

Following reports of sexual harassment and discrimination at the FDIC, Ernst was one of the first senators to call for the resignation of FDIC Chairman Martin Grünberg. In November 2023, it subsequently conducted a critical review of this conduct at the FDIC and requested that all evidence of criminal misconduct by agency employees be turned over to the Department of Justice and local law enforcement for possible prosecution.

When the FDIC let its deadline for a response pass without answering its oversight questions, it introduced legislation to ensure that federal employees and contractors found guilty of sexual misconduct face serious consequences for their actions, including termination. have to calculate.

Following a senior FDIC official’s guilty plea on charges of producing child pornography, Ernst followed through on her promise to hold FDIC bureaucrats accountable for the culture of sexual misconduct and urged them to come clean.

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