RSSLongtime attorney and government official Michael Horowitz was appointed to lead the Office of Inspector General for both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Reserve.
Horowitz succeeds Mark Bialek, who retired this spring after nearly 14 years as inspector general. Horowitz, who has more than 35 years of experience in the legal field, public administration and investigations, most recently served as inspector general for the Department of Justice. He also chaired a committee of 21 federal inspectors general that oversaw $5 trillion in pandemic-era stimulus spending.
Horowitz chaired the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, and has been a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, eventually serving as chief of the office’s public corruption unit.
Horowitz has a law degree from Harvard Law School.
