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McHenry’s letter said Gruenberg had “slow-walked” the panel’s requests that he voluntarily sit down for an interview by Sept. 30.

McHenry throws down gauntlet on Gruenberg testimony

The chair of the House Financial Service Committee accused Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg of slow-walking a congressional investigation into the agency’s workplace problems, firing off a letter requiring an immediate commitment to sit down for a transcribed interview.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) reprimanded Gruenberg for a “repeated failure” to be “transparent” with the committee following the publication of a report earlier this year that detailed significant workplace problems at the FDIC going back decades. Gruenberg has led the agency in separate stints starting with the George W. Bush administration.

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