Warren calls for SEC investigation into Fed officials after controversial trades

By Zach Halaschak

Published October 4, 2021 7:50pm ET

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Warren calls for SEC investigation into Fed officials after controversial trades — Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and 2020 presidential candidate, speaks during a town hall event in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Warren warned that the U.S. needs to secure its elections and says she has a plan to do that. | (Marco Bello/Bloomberg)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Federal Reserve officials’ personal trades.

The Massachusetts Democrat asked SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to look into “ethically questionable” transactions that she says might have violated insider trading rules in a Monday letter. The transactions in question were executed last year, and Warren asserted that they may have been conflicts of interest at best and criminal at worst.

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