A senior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee whose racially charged blog posts sparked an uproar last year is leaving the agency at the end of the month
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Blankenstein, a political appointee hired by former CFPB acting director Mick Mulvaney, questioned the legitimacy of hate crimes and whether using the N-word is inherently racist, in old blog posts uncovered by theThe writings drew the condemnation of Democratic lawmakers, consumer advocates and agency employees, leading Mulvaney to refer the matter to the CFPB’s inspector general.
The status of the inspector general review is not known. The inspector general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Sign Up When Sen. Sherrod Brown , the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, pressed Kraninger to read portions of the blog posts during a hearing in March, she declined, saying “the words here are not words that I would use.”
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