Tag: CFPB

United States Supreme Court Building

I received an email recently regarding a 2022 decision by a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The decision found the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional because the agency gets its money outside of the annual appropriations process.  The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear the case.  The question is…

beware scam

It is a cruel farce. Scammers use the names of federal agencies charged with protecting citizens’ financial security to rip them off. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has confirmed the existence of a new scam in which someone purporting to be from the agency contacts individuals and tells them they are eligible for a…