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Executives should be subject “to civil and criminal penalties, including disgorgement, if they provide fraudulent or misleading information or misuse funds, and should be required to immediately repurchase their bonds for the full amount when eligibility criteria are breached,” Warren said in a letter to central bank officials.
Warren is likely to raise the issue when Fed Chairman
Warren is also asking that corporate executives regularly re-certify that they meet the requirements for two of the Fed’s bond-buying emergency lending programs -- the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility.
Limitations on eligibility for the corporate credit lending facilities has been a key focus of a congressional
“You must ensure that -- unlike in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis -- companies that rip off taxpayers and the executives that run them are not let off the hook with minimal fines, no criminal liability, and no requirements that they even admit guilt,” Warren said in the letter.
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