New CFPB leadership allegedly uncovered what attorneys call the targeting of Townstone Financial based on its political ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked a federal judge to vacate and set aside a settlement against a Chicago ...

Within a year ... The CFPB — one of the first agencies to be targeted in Trump's federal government purge —remains alive, but just barely, The New York Times reports. Vought, an author of Project 2025 ...

Late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with a small mortgage lender based in Chicago, Townstone Financial, fining the company for discriminating against ...

The agency draws its budget through profits of the Federal Reserve, not an annual appropriation ... affirmed CFPB’s funding ...

Martinez described the back-and-forth that played out in recent weeks among acting CFPB Director Russ Vought, DOGE, the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget.

Paoletta and Vought — who both work at the Office of Management and Budget, which Vought directs, in addition to holding top jobs at the CFPB — need a paper trail they can point to showing that ...

One of the CFPB’s primary functions has been to take complaints from consumers and present them to financial institutions. It also goes after unfair, deceptive and abusive practices. Last year ...

Political figures reacted to the cases dropped by the agency. “The CFPB makes up just 0.01% of the federal budget, yet it has returned $21 BILLION to American taxpayers,” Congressman Bill ...

Last month, Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, told the CFPB to stop its investigations and work on proposed rules. He instructed the agency to ...