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Michelle W. Bowman

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Michelle W. Bowman is the Federal Reserve Board's vice chair for supervision, sworn in on June 9, 2025, and has been a member of the Board of Governors since November 2018. She was previously the Kansas state bank commissioner and a vice president of Farmers & Drovers Bank in Kansas.

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DI has documented statements by Michelle W. Bowman on Government Transparency and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Michelle W. Bowman

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Michelle W. Bowman

Role at the time: Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision, in a letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Explicitly stayed out

Statement summary

Bowman tells Warren she cannot confirm or comment on any specific investigation.

“I cannot confirm the existence of or otherwise comment on specific investigations”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Bill would force bank regulators to disclose Epstein recordsFull article
Why we used this label

Relative to whether regulators have failed to investigate banks and executives tied to Epstein, Bowman declines to say whether the Fed is investigating.

Read statementWarren and Garcia bill would force regulators to investigate banks tied to Epstein; the Fed and OCC say they cannot comment on investigations

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