One job, 2 chiefs as drama builds at consumer bureau

One job, 2 chiefs as drama builds at consumer bureau WASHINGTON - One came bearing doughnuts. The other brandishing a lawsuit. Two officials with starkly different views of the job staked claims Monday to be the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a dramatic showdown over the leadership of the independent watchdog that spilled into a federal courtroom. "It's a mess," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director of ...

Another fucking Obama holdover trying to undermine the authority of a new administration…
"Cordray, a Democrat who submitted his formal resignation Friday, wanted to keep the agency running like it had during the Obama administration for as long as possible. In promoting English, his chief of staff and a longtime ally, Cordray told the bureau he was trying to…"

Doesn't matter what follows that because any response would merely be a thinly veiled rationalization used to mask a deep state like control over the institution and its governance…