Trump And Mulvaney Keep Hacking Away At The Finance Protection Bureau

Latest Move: Shutting Down a CFPB Online Database of Financial Firms’ Thievery

By Sarah Okeson DC Reports.org

The Trump administration took down online records about abusive animal breeders, and now they’re considering ending an online complaint database about illegal fees, inaccurate debt collection and other chicanery by banks and other financial institutions.
Mick Mulvaney, who took $55,000 in campaign contributions from the payday-loan industry when he was a South Carolina congressman, told bankers he’s not required in his new job as acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to keep complaints online about dirty bankers.

“I don’t see anything in here that I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the federal government,” Mulvaney said. “I don’t see anything in here that says I have to make all of those public.”

Eight of the 10 financial institutions with the most complaints in the database made $82,500 in campaign contributions to Mulvaney with political action committees, according to Public Citizen.

Equifax Inc., with 83,252 complaints, contributed $5,000.
Bank of America, 74,221, $19,000.
Experian Information Solutions Inc., 72,188, $6,000.
Wells Fargo & Co., 62,142, $12,000.
JP Morgan Chase & Co., 51,139, $10,500.
Citibank, 41,598, $19,000.
Capital One Financial Corp., 26,822, $9,000.
Navient Solutions LLC, 24,243, $2,000.

“The talk of eliminating it fits right in with the Trump administration’s mission to shield companies from accountability,” said writer Russ Kick whose web site, AltGov 2, features government data.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture removed detailed online reports about abusive animal breeders on Feb. 3, 2017, just two weeks after Trump took office. The Humane Society of the United States puts out a list of the worst dog breeders in our nation each year. In this year’s list, the names of about a fourth of the worst breeders are missing because their names aren’t online, and the Trump administration wouldn’t release the names.

https://www.dcreport.org/2018/06/19/trump-and-mulvaney-keep-hacking-away-at-the-finance-protection-agency/

November 2018 cannot get fast enough