DailyCaller: Richard Cordray, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), used a private device for government communications, and didn’t create appropriate records of those messages with the bureau, according to documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller.
A longtime Democrat from Ohio, Cordray has served as head of the CFPB since January 2012, a position he is scheduled to hold through July 2018.
A source told TheDC that he submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in August 2016 for more than a year’s worth of text messages on official devices to and from various CFPB staffers.
The bureau responded that there were no records on any “CFPB issued or CFPB reimbursed devices” for any text messages sent or received associated with Cordray.
I suspect we’re going to be hit with a barrage of information about just how underhanded and corrupt the Obama Administration has been these last eight years. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and I think the Trump Administration is going to be a big, ball of sunshine.
Of COURSE he did. He’s a liberal elite and is entitled to do as he pleases.
Prolly only about yoga classes and daughters upcoming wedding.
@Hungjumper January 24, 2017 at 11:31 am
No, no. He’s just doing the people’s work to the best of his ability. And avoiding wasting the people’s time on that whole “oversight” charade. Which, be honest, is, itself, just a hole ‘nother waste of time.
Hopefully, Dood-Frank will be repealed and this absurdity will go away along with all its totalitarian, America-hating, Leftist bureaucrats.
Good – now he can be removed before his appointment expires. Either Trump can fire him or Congress can vote to remove him, which ever the office calls for.
Just make it easy and efficient and get rid of the entire CFPB. It is not worth the space it occupies and certainly not worth our tax dollars!
#LockHimUp
The CPFB never should have been created and its sole purpose is to shakedown banks so their “fines” can enrich left-wing advocacy groups.
He hid his communications because he was breaking every law could get away with.
Lock that entire board up.
So what? “No reasonable prosecutor would indict” for this.
J. Comey
He can’t turn over the device until he deletes all records of ordering ‘pizza’.
It is a top down problem. When the Sec of State can do it and get away why not a lower? Examples must be made. Starting with former Sec of State Hillary and then work down from there.
Lock Them Up.
@Pelopidas January 24, 2017 at 1:49 pm
“Examples must be made.”
Because there is a lack of replacements? Why fix the problem — of who is deciding what to do, and how — when you can have a show trial, or three, and have everybody that was hired because they were trusted to do the job the showpieces expected, to promise to have an epiphany, and never, ever, try — or even want — to do “that”, ever, again?
Wonder how many Ferraris he got under the table from WalMart.