Senators Seek FHFA Watchdog Removal over Alleged Staff Abuse

Two U.S. senators said Federal Housing Finance Agency Inspector General Laura Wertheimer should be removed from office after a report that she abused staff at the regulatory agency.

Republicans Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden dated Wednesday that Wertheimer should be forced out based on the findings in a report by a panel of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency that substantiated allegations of misconduct by Wertheimer and several of her employees.