A district judge in Wisconsin ordered two now-defunct mortgage relief firms and their principals to pay $59 million over foreclosure abuses. The payment includes $21.7 million in consumer restitution and a $37.3 million fine.
The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a recent court filing said the agency’s past enforcement actions can survive even if the U.S. Supreme Court finds its structure unconstitutional.
New York’s governor recently directed the New York State Department of Financial Services to investigate instances of alleged mortgage deed fraud in Brooklyn.
Nearly two dozen Democratic senators urged the CFPB to immediately open an enforcement investigation into a servicer’s management of a student loan forgiveness program.
The CFPB nowadays is less active in addressing fair lending concerns via enforcement actions, particularly in cases relating to disparate impact. The bureau did not initiate or complete a single fair lending enforcement action from October 2018 to March 2019.
Lower courts have started to put on hold CFPB enforcement litigation, pending a final decision by the Supreme Court on whether the bureau’s single-director leadership structure is constitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a case challenging the CFPB’s constitutionality. The court directed both parties to file briefs on a possible remedy.
CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger was grilled by Democratic lawmakers regarding enforcement actions during hearings on Capitol Hill. Other topics such as fair lending, innovation policies and qualified-mortgage patch were also on the agenda.
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