Three GOP lawmakers asked SEC Chair Gary Gensler to turn over information on his agency’s hiring process, claiming they had found evidence of a political ideology-driven hire.
United States House Republicans have probed Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, saying his agency could be hiring based on political affiliation, violating federal law.
In a Sept. 10 letter to Gensler — a Democrat — GOP lawmakers Jim Jordan, Patrick McHenry and James Comer accused the agency of hiring “individuals from left-leaning organizations to fill senior roles at the SEC.”
They claimed email correspondence made public in an SEC rulemaking comment may show that Gensler’s decision to hire the agency’s director of trading and markets, Dr Haoxiang Zhu, was “influenced by his political affiliation.”
