The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a consent order requiring Block, Inc., the operator of peer-to-peer payments app Cash App, to pay $175 million for failing to prevent consumer fraud in... Read more »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a consent order against VyStar Credit Union for engaging in unfair acts and practices in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act in its failed transition... Read more »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entered consent orders with Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA for violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act and Truth in Lending Act related to the... Read more »
The CFPB proposed order bans Navient from federal student loan servicing and imposes $120 million in restitution and penalties for wide-ranging student loan servicing failures. Source link Read more »
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the government watchdog responsible for oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published a report Thursday... Read more »
A two-part report published on Monday by the Wren Collective, a group of former public defenders who do criminal justice research and policy, found that in most Harris County, Texas cases ending... Read more »
Recent assaults on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar have renewed concerns about whether the chronically understaffed, crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe, Michael R.... Read more »
A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Samuel Lawrence was arrested for arson... Read more »