While Department of the Treasury secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin was largely embraced by Republicans during his first confirmation hearing on Thursday, at least one appeared skeptical. At the hearing, Sen. Dean Heller expressed his frustration that Mnuchin and his staff had not answered questions about the foreclosure policies Mnuchin's bank OneWest pursued in the aftermath […]
A former New York state senator was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for seeking to obstruct a federal investigation into whether he had embezzled proceeds from sales of foreclosed properties. John Sampson, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry in Brooklyn, where the Democrat had been a state senator from […]
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A leading Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday asked President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary to answer some questions about lending practices at OneWest Bank, which Mnuchin headed during the housing crisis. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown sent Mnuchin a letter asking him to detail his policies on lending discrimination, foreclosure-prevention programs, and on regulation of large […]
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting attention as a potential Supreme Court nominee if Republicans win the White House. According to the
A Virginia state senator has sued the state and a local mental health agency for the wrongful death by suicide of his son, the