Transparency Watchdog Requesting Investigation Into Rogue CFPB Lawsuit

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FACT is arguing that the funding of the lawsuit by someone else might be a gift prohibited by ethics rules, saying in the letter that English "brought a personal lawsuit based upon her official position with the CFPB, and any gift give to fund her lawsuit would be a ‘gift given because of the employee's official position.'"

A ruling on English's appeal is expected any day, but FACT executive director Kendra Arnold says the ethical questions they've raised are separate issues from what's at stake in the court case and therefore should be investigated and answered thoroughly.

"There is one more issue that comes up, and that is sources prohibited from gift giving," Arnold told the Washington Free Beacon. "Because the public doesn't know who is giving the gift, it could have come from a prohibited source. For example, certain individuals with business before an agency, lobbyists, different individuals are prohibited from giving any gifts at all. And so we don't know if the funder of the suit is included in that list. But obviously, that's one of the most clear-cut rules, and so we would expect that's something the Office of Government Ethics would have to look at."

Requests for comment from the CFBP, the Office of Government Ethics, and to English's attorney Deepak Gupta were not returned.

The watchdog group is also pointing to a Daily Caller report claiming that English "disappeared for five full weeks earlier this year when she inexplicably moved 3,000 miles away from Washington, D.C., to work in the agency's tiny San Francisco office."



Transparency Watchdog Requesting Investigation Into Rogue CFPB Lawsuit


it would be interesting to learn which Progressive(s) Groups are funding this sour grapes lawsuit
 
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