WICHITA — Officials at a state psychiatric hospital in Larned weren’t aware that the man hired as its chief financial officer in 2015 had been the focus of a federal investigation, according to the state agency that oversees the facility.
David Fender joined Larned State Hospital in August 2015, after serving a year as chief financial officer for the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae, a federally owned corporation that insures government-backed mortgages.