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Paul Bland, Executive Director of Public Justice, has dedicated his professional life as a lawyer and consumer advocate to protecting people from corporate wrongdoers and bad Supreme Court decisions. Watch Paul's recent interview with Media Matters for America as he discusses his...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) joined with 49 attorneys general and the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to announce a $2.1 billion settlement with Ocwen Financial Corporation to address allegations of "robo-signing" of foreclosure documents and other fraudulent...
If the choices we make reveal the true nature of our character, what do the SEC enforcement actions reveal about the character, trustworthiness and integrity of those in the finanical industry whose choices led to the actions in the first place? Trust and truth go together. If we can't trust that...
In 2009, President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which, among other things, created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The powers of the Bureau were additionally a part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation that...
My name is Alisa and I live in Mississippi.  I am about to tell you a story about two hard working, honest and patriotic Americans who should have never suffered the immoral, deceptive and unconscionable behavior of their mortgage servicers....
Just a few years ago, students who applied for financial aid would receive a check for the non-tuition portion of their aid. This portion of financial aid is meant to pay for books, room and board, and other education related...
When it first debuted a little over a year ago, it remained to be seen whether the government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be a positive force in the lives of consumers or if it would be just another bureaucracy...
If you've been fighting fraudulent foreclosures or predatory mortgage servicing abuses, odds are good you've heard of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. --better known as MERS.Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording...
Wondering what's driving the public outrage? Last year, CBS News and the New York Times polled 1,000 Americans to learn why so many Americans seemed so angry. They reported that eight in 10 people say it's because Congress is more...
It's counter-intuitive to raise interest rates and slather even more debt onto troubled borrowers, but that's exactly what lenders often do. They're in business to make money, not to make sense. We don't get to make up the rules of...

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