Redlining settlement wouldn’t resolve 1st Amendment questions
The CFPB claimed statements made by hosts of Townstone Financial's AM radio call-in show and podcasts discouraged Black Chicago residents from applying for a mortgage
Inman cited CEI’s experts on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In an April 2023 Wall Street Journal op-ed, CEI fellows John Berlau and Stone Washington claimed that “the CFPB is signaling that it may attempt to punish anyone who complains about neighborhood crime.”
The “law-abiding citizen discouraged from applying for a loan by a mortgage professional calling out neighborhood ‘hoodlums’ exists only in a CFPB bureaucrat’s imagination,” Berlau and Stone wrote.
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