Throughout his career in Congress, Representative Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN) has spearheaded initiatives to help lobbyists and his financial industry donors shield banks from regulation and exempt them from predatory lending rules. Now, just after Bank of America was fined $100 million for mistreating unemployed workers, the third-term Indiana lawmaker used a congressional hearing to publicly commend the company’s CEO for hiring his top aide, Sruthi Prabhu.

“I wanted to let you know — Sruthi, raise your hand, Sruthi. She has been my team member for a couple of years, but [next week], she becomes a Bank of America team member,” Hollingsworth said. He added that “she is very, very excited, so I hope you’ll take good care of her and know and recognize the talent that she has shown already in our office. I’m sure she’ll do the same at Bank of America.”

“We’ll do that, and her father already works for us,” Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan replied. “So he’ll take care of it.”