On Tuesday, we hosted a successful webinar with Professor Elizabeth Warren, AFR Director Heather Booth, and Americans for Fairness in Lending. Thanks to everyone who was able to join us for this exciting online event! We had a great conversation and had tons of thoughtful questions asked by the audience. We’d like to continue that
Tell the Chamber of Commerce and the Big Banks to stop lying about the CFPA! A new website is “declaring war” on the Chamber of Commerce, which has been spreading lies about the CFPA. Watch the video and visit the site!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The so-called $50 billion “bailout slush fund” would force big banks to pay not taxpayers Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform denounces the misstatements by opponents of reform – including Senators Shelby and DeMint – that have been spreading surrounding a measure in the Senate financial reform bill that would dissolve big banks and financial companies
For Immediate Release March 31, 2010 Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of over 200 groups, called upon Congress to support the “Financial Crisis of 2008 Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Act of 2009” authored by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH). The bill is directed at giving the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau
The Honorable Marcy Kaptur United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 March 31, 2010 Dear Representative Kaptur: We are writing in support of H.R. 3995, the “Financial Crisis of 2008 Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Act of 2009,” authored by Representative Marcy Kaptur. In the eighteen months since fraudulent and corrupt business practices in the
Consumer rights activists staged a protest inside the Bank of America building in St. Louis on March 24th. The protesters, organized as part of the People’s Settlement, called for a freeze on foreclosures and specifically sought a conversation with Jack Shackett, Bank of America’s Credit Loss Mitigations Strategies Executive, who they hoped would talk to