Consumer Confidential: Fake news, says Trump's consumer agency of its own complaint database
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2019
4 minutes
The Trump administration has never been shy about expressing its disdain for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in general and the agency's complaint database in particular.
While he was in charge of the consumer agency, before becoming President Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney questioned the legal requirement that he provide a forum for consumers' complaints about financial firms.
"I don't see anything in here that says I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the federal government," he said at a banking industry conference last year. "I don't see anything in here that
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