Tom Emmer: Gary Gensler Might Be 'Worst SEC Chair in History'

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News that Gary Gensler “might go down” as the “worst SEC chair in history” after an SEC Inspector General report found that “avoidable errors” led to the loss of one year of Gensler’s text messages.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Inspector General released a report last week that found that in July 2023, Gensler’s smartphone stopped communicating with the agency’s mobile device management system. One month later, the SEC Office of Information Technology (OIT) instituted a new policy that would remotely wipe any SEC mobile device that did not communicate with the mobile management system for at least 45 days. In September, Gensler sought help from OIT to recover applications that were not on his smartphone, who “hastily pe