Trump official gave big banks a ‘discount’ for screwing people over

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Mick Mulvaney used his tenure at the CFPB to do the bidding of corporations, not help consumers.

The Senate approved Kathy Kraninger as the new head for the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), but not before previous chief Mick Mulvaney could make a mockery of the agency.

Mulvaney took over the consumer protection agency in November 2017, even though he hated the agency and once said, “I don’t like the fact that CFPB exists.”

When the Washington Post delved into Mulvaney’s tenure at the CFPB, it found a disturbing pattern of Mulvaney using his position to go soft on companies that were harming consumers.

View the complete December 7 article by Dan Desai Martin on the ShareBlue.com website here.