As the battle for leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to work its way through the court systems, a coalition of 17 state attorneys general wrote the president to say they supported the bureau and would continue enforcing consumer protection laws regardless of the status of CFPB leadership.
“If incoming CFPB leadership prevents the agency’s professional staff from aggressively pursuing consumer abuse and financial misconduct, we will redouble our efforts at the state level to root out such misconduct and hold those responsible to account,” their letter said.
Read on for more about the message and the states which signed on to it.
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