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Eric S. Rosengren

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Boston Fed materials identify Rosengren as president of the Reserve Bank that administered the Main Street Lending Program.

Identity and role

Eric S. Rosengren was president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2007 until his retirement on September 30, 2021. The Boston Fed under Rosengren administered the Main Street Lending Program for the Federal Reserve System, the large-business emergency-credit facility authorized by the Board under Chair Jerome H. Powell.

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

His May 19, 2020 speech described the Main Street Lending Program and other Federal Reserve actions. Main Street was separate from the Minneapolis Fed's PPPLF, the Federal Reserve facility that financed PPP lenders.

Their own relief

No personal PPP loan, company relief loan, or pandemic-aid enforcement action was located.

We found no personal criminal charge, civil enforcement order, settlement, conviction, or fraud finding for Eric S. Rosengren.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Rosengren announced in September 2021 that he would move up a planned June 2022 retirement to September 30, 2021, citing a kidney condition. Separately, the Federal Reserve OIG reviewed Reserve Bank trading activity and concluded that Rosengren's 2020 REIT holdings and transactions did not violate federal conflict-of-interest laws, while finding disclosure omissions and discrepancies and an appearance-of-conflict problem. The OIG closing report is a finding of no legal violation, not a finding of insider trading.

Federal Reserve History lists Rosengren as retired September 30, 2021. Public academic and media pages identify him as a former Boston Fed president and economics commentator.

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