Leandra English: Not since the impacts of the 2008 financial crisis were realized has the need for government action on consumer protection...
Matt Petersen is a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with two decades of high-level legal experience in political and...
By 2011, Flagstar Bank FSB had 13,000 active loss mitigation applications versus 25 full-time employees in the loss mitigation department and a...
Barr’s view of history, including his claim that the Founders shared in any respect his vision of an unchecked president, and his...
AG Bill Barr; More recently, the Dodd-Frank Act’s creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Branch, a single-headed independent agency that functions like...
Yesterday, 13th of November, 2019 was the start of President Donald Trumps' impeachment. However, there was other dastardly deeds being done in...
On October 15th, 2019, a visionary District Court judge in New York has stayed a case against a collection law firm that...
On Nov. 5th, 2019 the Second Circuit entered an order adjourning the oral argument that was set for November 21, 2019. The...
On October 21st, 2019, the Ninth Circuit issued an order withdrawing submission of the appeal and staying all further proceedings until the...
A report out this week from the watchdog group Allied Progress showing more than half the members appointed to a separate 12-person...
It’s great to read that the Burkes’ suggestions in their intervenor application are being put forward by a Representative. The CFPB is...
Ocwen contends that under the Supreme Court’s holding in 2018’s Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a party that raises a constitutional...
Since 2015, attorney Herskowitz has been implicated in at least two other schemes targeting borrowers in foreclosure in Florida and Queens. He...
In the words of CFPB Director Richard Cordray, These wolves in sheep’s clothing [lawyers] take money from consumers who are already struggling...
Our lawsuit asserts that consumers were harassed, threatened, and deceived as part of a reprehensible scheme to collect debt that was not...
CFPB's paltry fine; in the context of the massive amount of mortgage fraud that occurred in this industry, a $15 million penalty...
The CFPB has 1,600 staff and the majority of those are lawyers. The Annual Payroll is around $250,000,000. They need to be...
The consumer bureau, as well as fellow financial regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of...