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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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