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Huffington Post: Hundreds Of Suspiciously Similar Letters Praise The Payday Loan Industry Ahead Of Crackdown
Hundreds of individually submitted comments to a federal regulator praising the payday loan industry contain identical phrases, like “It was a very efficient process and definitely the most reasonable option for me.”
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Kansas City Star: DC Group Wants Inspector General to Examine Brian Newby’s Voter Registration Decision; Kobach Pushes Back
A Washington group has renewed its call for an investigation of Brian Newby, the former head of the Johnson County Election Office and now in charge of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, or EAC.
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Kansas City Star: DC Group Wants Inspector General to Examine Brian Newby’s Voter Registration Decision
A Washington group has renewed its call for an investigation of Brian Newby, the former head of the Johnson County Election Office and now in charge of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, or EAC.
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Group Renews Call for Inspector General Investigation of Election Assistance Commission Leader
Inspector General citied court case in initial decision to forgo investigation. That case has now been resolved.
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NBC News: Voter Registration Flap Still Haunting Election Agency
But even with Newby’s change blocked, Allied Progress wants him held accountable. In its Wednesday letter, the group noted that EAC policy bars staff from communicating privately with anyone who has business before the agency, on any issue over which it has authority. It charges that Newby may have violated that policy by holding private conversations about whether to change the form with Kobach and perhaps the two other secretaries of state. The letter accuses Newby of jeopardizing the EAC’s “integrity and efficacy.”
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New Website Dishes the Dirt on Predatory Payday Lending Industry
“Hardworking Americans deserve to know the truth, which is why we have made our extensive research files into this predatory industry available to the public,” said Karl Frisch.
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FloridaPolitics.com: When Investigating Payday Lending, Knowledge Is Power
Writing in the Tampa Bay Times July 29, Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a public interest group opposed to the payday lobby, cited reports that the industry has contributed more than $2.5 million to Florida politicians and political parties since 2009. Nearly $1 million of that came from payday lender Amscot Financial and the family that controls it. Small wonder, then, that so many Florida politicians have been friendly to payday lending. But they know now that the public is on to them.
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Tampa Bay Times: Now We Know What Was Fueling Push to Expand Florida’s Disastrous Payday Lending Model
The push to spread Florida’s disastrous model of payday lending nationally died when two of its chief backers — Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Murphy — pulled the plug and instead endorsed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s plan to rein in this predatory industry.
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Groups Praise CFPB on its 5th Anniversary for Making Life “Better for American Families”
Groups say life is better for American families because the CFPB is at work fighting predatory lending and financial abuse.
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“Ability to Repay” Is Key to CFPB’s Proposed Payday Lending Reforms
Broad coalition of groups underscore importance of “ability to repay” requirement in CFPB’s proposed payday lending rule.