SCOTUS to review constitutionality of financial watchdog agency
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
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An ethics watchdog is calling for an investigation into acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney for allegedly misleading Congress about a foreclosure on an investment property he owns in South Carolina. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on Monday asked the Federal Reserve's inspector general to investigate whether Mulvaney misled the Senate […]
The Trump administration will ask Congress to make drastic changes to weaken the independence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NPR has learned. Sources familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named, tell NPR that the CFPB's interim director, Mick Mulvaney, will ask lawmakers to restructure the bureau in his upcoming semi-annual report […]
ABA Journal Daily News
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Mick Mulvaney, center, walks to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building after leaving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, Nov. 27, 2017. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over whether U.S. President Donald Trump can appoint his budget director as head of a consumer protection agency founded in the wake of the financial crisis […]
Former Colorado Ethics Watch attorney Peg Perl plans to file paperwork Wednesday to enter the race for Denver clerk and recorder in next year's municipal election. She will be the first to establish her candidacy, but others are expected to join a potentially very competitive open race to succeed Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson. Foreclosure […]
TPI Triunfo Participacoes & Investimentos SA has sued a Brazilian regulator over delays in a toll road project that forced the debt-laden infrastructure firm to embark on a painful restructuring, two people familiar with the matter said. Last week, Triunfo filed a lawsuit at the 5th Civil Court of Brasilia against transportation industry watchdog ANTT, […]