Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ‘Cozy’ With Liberal Non-Profits, Big Banks

Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren rose toprominence as an advocate for the creation ofthe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It was to bea government watchdog advocating on behalf of Americans and wassupposed to be free from outside influences that could corrupt itswork. That wall of separation appears to have broken down, as leastin one case.

Earlier this year, the CFPB released suggested regulations ofpayday lenders, long a target of Democrats who claim they takeadvantage of the poor with outrageously high interestrates. Proponents for payday lenders remind opponents that theyengage in voluntary transactions in neighborhoods were banks arefew and far between.

The CFPB, it has been discovered, was quite “cozy”with left-wing advocacy groups who seek to harm the payday lendingindustry in the crafting of those suggested regulations.

The Center for Responsible Lending, Politico reports, was one of the groupsintimately involved in the proposed rule making.

At the same time the influencing of the CFPB is coming to lightfrom the non-profit/activist world, the corporate and lobbyingworlds have come calling as well.

The Hill reports, “At least 45 formerCFPB employees, ranging from investigators andenforcement attorneys to higher-ranking officials who ran theagency, have departed to work at law or consulting firms,corporations and nonprofits since the agency opened its doors in2011.”

Senator Warren become a star on the political left due, in part,to her opposition to “big banks and Wall Street.”However, the agency she started now boasts many alums working onbehalf of those very giants.

The Hill found: