AGA Fraud 2025

Michael Horowitz
Inspector General
Federal Reserve Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau


Michael E. Horowitz was appointed Inspector General for the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors (Board) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) effective June 30, 2025. He leads the OIG’s approximately 140 person staff in promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and preventing and detecting waste, fraud, and abuse in the Board’s and the CFPB’s programs and operations. Mr. Horowitz also serves as Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a position he has held since April 2020. Comprising 22 federal inspectors general, the committee was created by Congress to oversee the more than $5 trillion in federal pandemic-related emergency spending. Before joining the OIG, Mr. Horowitz was Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for 13 years following his confirmation by the United States Senate in 2012. He also served as chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency from 2015 to 2020. Mr. Horowitz worked from 2002 to 2012 as a partner at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he focused his practice on regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and white collar defense. In 2003, he was confirmed by the Senate to serve a 6-year term as a part-time Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. He also was a board member of the Ethics Resource Center and the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Before his time in private practice, Mr. Horowitz worked in DOJ from 1991 to 2002. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1991 to 1999, where he was the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit and a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. From 1999 to 2002, he worked in the DOJ Criminal Division at Main Justice in Washington, DC, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and then as Chief of Staff.

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