President Joe Biden’s already-controversial pic to lead an agency that oversees the nation’s banks despite a previous statement indicating she wants to “end banking as we know it” has now become mired in a new controversy: A prior arrest.
According to Fox News, Soviet-born Saule Omarova, whom Biden picked to lead the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was arrested in 1995 for “retail theft,” according to arrest records obtained by the network.
Fox News adds: According to the background check, Omarova was arrested by Madison, Wisconsin, police officers on June 2, 1995 and charged with a misdemeanor count of “retail theft.”
