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Election Strikes Blow to Anti-Consumer Republicans in Congress
The people have spoken. They want Congress to protect consumers and strengthen the CFPB’s ability to hold banks, predatory lenders, and other financial scammers accountable to the full extent of the law.
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Thanks Mulvaney! Wells Fargo to Pay-Out Investors, Make Defrauded Customers Wait Years
Mick Mulvaney’s CFPB has again let the grifting bank set the terms for repaying the customers it stole from.
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Mulvaney’s CFPB: Trick Consumers, Treat Financial Predators
He has taken an ax to basic consumer protections and conjured up a regulatory environment where predatory lenders, financial bottom feeders, and other ghastly ghouls are left to haunt the financial landscape.
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FTC Commissioner Says Mulvaney’s CFPB Could Go After Lender for Misleading Student Loan Borrowers. Will It?
Unlike the Federal Trade Commission, CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney can demand civil penalties for misleading students. Will he or will he continue bowing down to predatory lenders?
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Debt Trap Revival: Trump/Mulvaney CFPB Announces Plan to Gut Payday Loan Borrower Protections
Donald Trump and CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney are attempting to sabotage the Payday Rule by eliminating the Ability-To-Repay standard. Ironically enough, the two of them combined have taken nearly $2 million from payday lenders.
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Mulvaney Once Again Goes Soft on Crimes of Predatory Payday Lender
Mulvaney took $60,000 in campaign cash from payday lenders. He just cut a CFPB-sought fine against a payday lender from $3 million to $200,000.
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Mulvaney Wants To Gut Payday Loan Protections, But CFPB Staff Don’t Want To “Harm People”
Payday lenders showered him with campaign cash. Now Mulvane wants to gut a CFPB rule protecting borrowers from the payday debt trap.
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Inspector General Should Consider Newly Discovered and Highly Troubling Amazon Wish List in Blankenstein Probe
An “Eric Blankenstein” from the same Northern Virginia neighborhood where the CFPB’s Blankenstein grew up, wanted a book that argues the rise of Western power in the world was due to genetic superiority.
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Mulvaney Okays After Hours Racism Following Uproar Over Appointee’s Racist Blog Posts
Amid rebellion by CFPB staff over racist blog posts by Eric Blankenstein, Mulvaney says it’s okay to express “personal views” on personal time.
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WWKKD: What Will Kathy Kraninger Do?
Trump’s CFPB nominee has yet to comment on Eric Blankenstein’s racist and sexist writing.