Michael McCarthy
General Counsel
Mike McCarthy serves as the General Counsel to the Inspector General. In this role, he leads a team of attorneys who provide independent legal counsel and determinations to the Inspector General and the OIG. Mr. McCarthy is a career public servant who has worked in all three branches of government. Before joining the FDIC OIG, he served as Acting Inspector General for the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 2014-2017, where he led an office that evaluated risk management and compliance and investigated bank fraud and money laundering cases. He has also been a senior executive at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Administrative Conference of the United States, and previously served at the U.S. Department of Justice. For the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. McCarthy served as general counsel to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and as staff director of that panel's Subcommittee on Government Management. He was law clerk to U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema (Eastern District of Virginia). Mr. McCarthy graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and received a B.A. from Georgetown University, where he was a Big East All-Academic swimmer.
Shimon Richmond
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
Shimon Richmond is the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations. His office is responsible for carrying out a comprehensive nationwide program for the prevention, deterrence, detection, and investigation of criminal, civil, and administrative misconduct impacting FDIC programs and operations. Accordingly, his office conducts criminal investigations and law enforcement operations throughout the United States. The matters investigated by OIG’s Special Agents involve complex multi-million-dollar schemes of bank fraud, obstruction of bank examinations, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, contract/cyber frauds, and other crimes. Mr. Richmond and his staff routinely work in partnership with the Department of Justice, United States Attorney’s Offices, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation Division, other Offices of Inspector General, and other state and local law enforcement entities.
Before joining our Office, Mr. Richmond was an Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). In that role, Mr. Richmond provided executive leadership and oversight to criminal investigators, analysts, IT forensic examiners, and staff who carried out the mission of protecting the integrity of HHS programs as well as the health and welfare of program beneficiaries.
Mr. Richmond previously served as the Special Agent in Charge of HHS OIG’s Miami Region, as a headquarters supervisor with coordination and oversight responsibilities for HHS OIG’s investigative operations, as a supervisor in the National Training & Emergency Operations Branch, and as a member of the Department of Justice’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Before joining HHS OIG, Mr. Richmond worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and as a police officer.
Mr. Richmond is a Senior Fellow with the Partnership for Public Service’s Excellence in Government Fellows program, is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and holds several other certifications. He has received numerous awards during his career, including a Department of Justice leadership award. He is a graduate of Champlain College and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received a Wharton Leadership Certificate.
Bronzwyn Palmer
Assistant Inspector General for Management
Bronzwyn Palmer serves as the Assistant Inspector General for Management. Prior to joining the FDIC Office of Inspector General, Ms. Palmer was the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Management at the Department of Education OIG. In this position, Ms. Palmer oversaw the formulation and execution of the budget and procurement functions, and she managed human capital, physical security, continuity of operations, facilities, records management, and training and development. Ms. Palmer served as the Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Asset and Facilities Management; and she has held other important positions with the General Services Administration, Department of Defense, and Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Palmer holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Keller Graduate School of Management, a Master’s Certificate in Federal Project Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from North Carolina Central University.