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Undated: Leandra English is an
American government official who served as the Deputy Director of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2017 until her resignation
in 2018.[1]
She was the
plaintiff in the lawsuit
English v. Trump, in which she sought to have herself acknowledged as
Acting Director of the CFPB.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leandra_English
-- 2017 --
November 24: Leandra English Named Deputy
Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced that Leandra
English has been officially named deputy director of the agency. English, who
had been most recently serving as the agency’s chief of staff, has previously
held key leadership positions at the CFPB, the Office of Management and Budget,
and the Office of Personnel Management. David Silberman, who had been serving as
acting deputy director, will continue in his role as associate director of the
Research, Markets, and Regulations division.
“Leandra is a seasoned professional who has spent her career of public service
focused on promoting smooth and efficient operations. As deputy director, we
will continue to benefit from Leandra’s in-depth knowledge of the operational
needs of this agency and its staff,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/leandra-english-named-deputy-director-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/
November 26: Leandra
English, the woman at the center of a White House battle for control of the CFPB,
files lawsuit against Trump pick to lead watchdog agency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/11/26/who-is-leandra-english-the-woman-at-the-center-of-a-white-house-battle-for-control-of-the-cfpb/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9bd43440c5d0
November 27: One side filed a lawsuit.
The other side brought doughnuts.
So goes the drama playing out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The agency's former director Richard Cordray appointed Leandra English
as its deputy director last week, ahead of his departure. English, formerly
the agency's chief of staff, believes she should be in charge of the agency. But
President Trump named Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as
Cordray's successor shortly after. On Sunday, English filed a lawsuit to prevent
the installation of Mulvaney, a vocal critic of the agency.
That made for an exciting Monday morning. Both English and Mulvaney showed up to
work, each trying to assume the title of acting director.
English sent an email to staff, welcoming them back from the Thanksgiving
weekend and calling herself the acting director.
Meanwhile, Mulvaney showed up for work, doughnuts in hand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/11/27/english-vs-mulvaney-cfpb-leadership-drama-plays-out-dueling-memos-and-doughnuts/897589001/
November 27: Mulvaney tells CFPB to
"disregard" instruction from Leandra English
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, named by President Trump as acting
director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent a memo to the
agency's staff Monday that read: "Please disregard any instructions you receive
from Ms. English in her presumed capacity as Acting Director,"
Reuters reports. He also
brought donuts.
The backdrop: The CFPB currently has two chiefs. Leandra English is
former director Richard Cordray's pick to lead the agency, and
she has sued the Trump administration over Mulvaney's appointment. Mulvaney
told staffers to report any communications from English to the general counsel
of the CFPB, who has
said she believes Mulvaney has the authority of acting director.
https://www.axios.com/mulvaney-tells-cfpb-to-disregard-instruction-from-leandra-english-1513307187-9060ecd2-d24e-4a90-9856-6b832f018887.html
November 27: Leandra English makes legal
case for running CFPB while Justice Department says not safe from firing
Leandra English's attorney asked a federal judge Monday to quickly
declare that she, rather than Mick Mulvaney, is acting director of the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau as the two claimants dispute who's in charge of the
agency.
Attorney Deepak Gupta said President Trump had no legal right to name an acting
director of the CFPB after Richard Cordray's abrupt departure, even if a
donut-bearing Mulvaney was welcomed by senior CFPB staff Monday morning.
Gupta asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to issue an emerging ruling as
early as this week on English's lawsuit, which she filed Sunday night. He said
it the unusual power struggle constitutes an emergency.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/leandra-english-makes-legal-case-for-running-cfpb-while-justice-department-says-not-safe-from-firing
November 28: Leandra English not funding
lawsuit against Trump administration: Lawyer
Deepak Gupta, the lawyer for Leandra English, discusses the funding behind the
lawsuit against the Trump administration to block Mick Mulvaney from assuming
the directorship at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/11/28/leandra-english-not-funding-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-lawyer.html
November 28:
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement after outgoing
CFPB Director Richard Cordray named longserving CFPB official Leandra English to
serve as Deputy Director
“The law is clear: after Director Cordray’s departure, Deputy Director Leandra
English will serve as Acting Director until a new Director is confirmed by the
Senate.
“All Americans should be deeply concerned about the White House’s cynical
decision to flout the law and attempt to put the ringleader of its dangerous,
anti-consumer protection policies in charge of the CFPB. Mick Mulvaney has led
the shameful crusade to destroy the CFPB from the beginning, and his sham
appointment would subject the Bureau to the influence of the same bad actors on
Wall Street who brought the country to the brink of collapse a decade ago.
As the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mulvaney also has no
business leading an independent agency that the Administration has constantly
tried to tear apart.
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/112617/
November 29: Recently confirmed Judge
Timothy J. Kelly (D.D.C.) has refused to block Mick Mulvaney from serving as
acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, denying a request
from would-be director Leandra English’s for a temporary restraining order.
https://abovethelaw.com/tag/leandra-english/
November 29: In response to a U.S. District
Court judge’s decision to deny Leandra English’s initial motion for a temporary
restraining order against the Trump Administration for attempting to install
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as Acting
Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Congresswoman
Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial
Services, made the following statement:
“This is just the beginning of what will likely be a long legal battle. While
the temporary restraining order has been denied, the merits of the case have yet
to be decided.
“The Dodd-Frank statute is clear that the Deputy Director of the Consumer Bureau
shall serve as Acting Director in the absence or unavailability of the Director.
Leandra English, the Consumer Bureau’s Deputy Director, is the lawful Acting
Director and she should be allowed to serve in that capacity until a Director is
confirmed by the Senate.
“Regarding Mick Mulvaney’s illegal move to freeze hiring and new regulations at
the Consumer Bureau, let’s be clear: any move to freeze the activities of the
Consumer Bureau is a move to hurt consumers, prevent victims of fraud from
receiving compensation, and help cover for abusive financial institutions that
rip off consumers. Mr. Mulvaney is not the legitimate Acting Director of the
Consumer Bureau, and he does not have the legitimate authority to constrain its
important work.”
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400979
November 29:
Johnson Demands Answers from OPM on Leandra English’s Position at CFPB
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to the Office of Personnel
Management Acting Director Kathleen McGettigan regarding the approval to convert
Leandra English from a senior political appointment at the OPM to a career
position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Jan. 8, 2017. The
letter is in response to concerns that Ms. English abused the conversion process
for political purposes after President Trump’s election.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/johnson-demands-answers-from-opm-on-leandra-englishs-position-at-cfpb
December 1: The weeklong showdown over the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ended in President Donald Trump’s
favor. White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney’s legitimacy as acting director
was recognized by a federal judge and senior CFPB officials, leaving the
former director’s chief of staff, Leandra English, to mount a legal defense. As
Democratic lawmakers jockey for hegemony over the organization, a larger Supreme
Court Case is taking shape. At stake is the extent of unregulated capitalism and
the executive branch.
Following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, over 100 “alphabet agencies” were
enacted to combat the effects of the Great Depression. While the president
maintained control over his cabinet to keep the executive branch nimble, these
commissions were helmed by bureaucrats with policy expertise.
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 granted the executive branch the
power to temporarily authorize officials to agencies, provided they were
confirmed by the Senate. The caveat was “if unless another statute expressly
designates a particular officer to serve in that acting capacity.”
https://observer.com/2017/12/cfpb-battle-with-mulvaney-and-english-points-toward-supreme-court/
December 5: Leandra English Prepares to Make
Her Second Push for CFPB Leadership
A federal judge in Washington has given the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s deputy director, Leandra English, a
Wednesday deadline to make her next push for control of the agency, which has
been at the center of a
power struggle following the
resignation of its former leader, Richard Cordray.
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2017/12/05/leandra-english-prepares-to-make-her-second-push-for-cfpb-leadership/?slreturn=20190013164233
December 8: The U.S. Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) independence from external political influence is
crucial to the agency’s mission of protecting consumers, 10 groups told a court
today in an
amicus brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia.
In the case, Deputy CFPB Director Leandra English is seeking a preliminary
injunction allowing her to serve as acting director of the CFPB while litigation
over the lawful acting director – herself or U.S. Office of Management and
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney – proceeds. In their amicus filing, the groups
explain that the public has a strong interest in English serving as the acting
director while the court further considers the legal issues.
“If there is any doubt about why Congress protected the CFPB’s independence,
look no further than the present,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public
Citizen. “Leandra English, an experienced CFPB senior official, has directed the
agency to continue pursuing its important mission. Mick Mulvaney has shown that
he neither supports the agency’s mission nor values its independence. In his
short time at the CFPB, he has tried to freeze the agency’s work and to tie it
to the White House’s political priorities.”
https://wispirg.org/news/usp/consumer-advocates-file-support-acting-cfpb-director-leandra-english
-- 2018 --
March 27: Letter to
Leandra English, Acting Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Mick
Mulvaney, Director, OMB - Senators Warn CFPB Against Repeal Of Rule Cracking
Down On Predatory Payday Lending Schemes
We write to express concern regarding the announcement that the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will begin the process of reconsidering and
eventually repealing the Bureau's recently finalized Payday, Vehicle Title, and
Certain High-Cost Installment Loans rule, also known as the "payday lending
rule." We view this action as well as the dismissal of ongoing enforcement
actions against predatory lenders as antithetical to the CFPB's mission ...
https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1233878/letter-to-leandra-english-acting-director-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-and-mick-mulvaney-director-omb-senators-warn-cfpb-against-repeal-of-rule-cracking-down-on-predatory-payday-lending-schemes#.XDuzGKUoHTQ
May 25: Mulvaney: What Does Leandra English
Do at the CFPB? Leandra English has a $212,000 salary as the Deputy Director of
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), although her exact duties at
the regulatory agency remain a mystery to CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney.
According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed “former and current staffers”
as its sources, Mulvaney has expressed confusion over what she is doing for the
agency. Mulvaney’s attempts to communicate with English via e-mail have been
ignored by her, and they have yet to cross paths because English maintains her
office is in a separate building.
Mulvaney has not included her CFPB leadership meetings and strategy sessions,
and the CFPB Web site page for English is absent of a formal biography. English,
who was Cordray's Chief of Staff Deputy Director only before he resigned, has
not made any public comments on her CFPB work since Mulvaney took over the
leadership of the agency.
Mulvaney has been asked why English hasn’t been fired, but he responded that he
cannot comment on potential job termination due to her ongoing litigation
against the Trump Administration. English has claimed she is the rightful CFPB
Acting Director because she was appointed by former Director Richard Cordray
prior to his resignation last November. However, two courts have already upheld
that President Trump’s appointment of Mulvaney as Acting Director was valid, and
the matter is now being reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/67233/mulvaney-what-does-leandra-english-cfpb
June 26: Chaos atop CFPB could get
worse after appeals court ruling
With leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau already facing
plenty of
uncertainty, a looming court decision could further upend the calculus of
who runs the agency.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has been deliberating since April
on whether Mick Mulvaney can continue as acting CFPB director. The three-judge
panel appeared skeptical of the claim by Leandra English, the chief of staff
under former CFPB Director Richard Cordray, that she is the rightful acting
director. But the judges also raised questions about Mulvaney's dual role
running the bureau and the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/chaos-atop-cfpb-could-get-worse-after-appeals-court-ruling
July 6: English to resign from U.S. Consumer
Financial Protection bureau, withdraw suit against Trump
Leandra English, the Deputy Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) who has sued President Donald Trump is stepping down from her
position early next week after the recent nomination of a new director.
“Now that Trump has decided to seek Senate confirmation of a new director for
the independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, English is stepping down
and we intend to file court papers on Monday to bring the litigation to a
close,” English’s attorney Deepak Gupta said in a tweet .
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cfpb/english-to-resign-from-u-s-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-withdraw-suit-against-trump-idUSKBN1JX01Z
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