Wall Street Watchdog Pick Who Scares Banks Faces Grilling
- Cornell’s Saule Omarova has a long record of ripping lenders
- Senate to hold Thursday hearing on her nomination for OCC
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Bank regulators are typically boring. But that’s not Saule Omarova’s style.
The outspoken Cornell Law School professor has characterized Wall Street as a “quintessential a--hole industry” and mused that policy makers should want smaller oil, gas and coal companies to go bankrupt because it would be good for the planet.