CFPB Still Cleaning Up Richard Cordray’s Mess After Years Of Mismanagement

Six months after Washington D.C. Bureaucrat Richard Cordray abandoned his post at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to seek Ohio’s highest office, the agency is still cleaning up the mess he left. Bloomberg reports that Leandra English, who Cordray tried to install as his successor in a move that threw the CFPB into chaos, is still earning a $212,000 taxpayer-funded salary even though the agency’s director “has no idea what she does all day” and she doesn’t respond to his emails.

For months, English’s position at the CFPB has been the subject of numerous questions, with Senator Ron Johnson seeking a probe into how she appears to be “burrowing” into a federal government job with Cordray’s assistance. Cordray’s attempts to use English to continue his radical agenda at the CFPB after his departure is one of a number of scandals that engulfed the CFPB under his watch, along with accusations of “widespread racism and gender discrimination” at the agency as well as his alleged funneling of millions of taxpayer dollars to Democrat ad makers who have been doing work for his campaign.

Thanks to Richard Cordray’s power-hungry attempt to hold on to control at the CFPB after he abandoned his post, the agency is still cleaning up his mess, paying his chosen successor a $212,000 salary as she attempts to subvert the administration’s authority. If this is how Cordray left his federal agency after half a decade in Washington, D.C., he shouldn’t be given the chance to do the same to Ohio.