FILE - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seal is shown outside its headquarters, March 14, 2023, in Washington. An independent review released Tuesday, May 7, 2024, of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ‘s workplace culture describes an environment that fostered “hostile, abusive, unprofessional, or inappropriate conduct,” and questions whether the agency’s chairman is credible to lead the agency through a cultural transformation. WASHINGTON — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
On Thursday, Republican lawmakers roundly called on Gruenberg, who is a Democrat, to resign, after a similar grilling at the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. At the Thursday hearing, Sen. Tim Scott detailed several stories of female FDIC workers who outlined extreme harassment and stalking by their coworkers, complaints that were dismissed by supervisors, according to the report.
Democratic Senators did not call on the agency chairman to resign, but called on Gruenberg to change the agency.