Lawmakers Step Up Fed Leak Scrutiny With Interview Requests
Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2015.
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Lawmakers intensified their scrutiny of a leak of confidential Federal Reserve deliberations, asking to interview central bank officials who could have supplied the information.
The House Financial Services Committee “intends to thoroughly investigate both the disclosure of confidential” policy information as well as an internal Fed probe of the leak, which it called “inadequate,” according to an April 15 letter to Fed Chair Janet Yellen.