On March 7, 2019, the DOJ announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases to date. Joined by the FBI and other federal and state partners, the DOJ held a press conference detailing the results of the coordinated effort. Coordinated law enforcement actions in the past year, they said, resulted in criminal cases against
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CFPB discusses initiatives to combat elder financial abuse
By Barbara S. Mishkin on
Posted in CFPB General, Regulatory and Enforcement
In a March 14 post on the CFPB’s blog, Skip Humphrey, who heads the CFPB’s Office of Older Americans, reported on his meeting with Illinois bank regulators and other Illinois officials to discuss the state’s efforts to combat financial elder abuse. Mr. Humphrey noted that Illinois recently enacted a law that requires employees of state…