CFPB enforcement lead resigns, slams ‘attack’ on core mission in departure email | CNN Business

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Cara Petersen, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting enforcement director, resigned from the agency on Tuesday. In an email to colleagues announcing her decision, Petersen slammed the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, which was established as a banking watchdog following the 2008 global financial crisis.

“I have served under every Director and Acting Director in the Bureau’s history and never before have I seen the ability to perform our core mission so under attack,” Petersen wrote in an email seen by CNN. “It is clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has

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