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Developments at the PA Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection

By Barbara S. Mishkin on February 11, 2019

Posted in Regulatory and Enforcement, State Enforcement

With the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Unit as one of his early actions, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro made clear his intention to pursue an aggressive pro-consumer agenda. Mr. Shapiro named Nicholas Smyth, a former CFPB enforcement attorney, to serve as Assistant Director of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

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Pennsylvania AG creates Consumer Financial Protection Unit

By Barbara S. Mishkin on July 24, 2017

Posted in Regulatory and Enforcement, State Enforcement

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, announced last Friday that his office is creating a Consumer Financial Protection Unit “to better protect Pennsylvania consumers from financial scams.”

The announcement indicated that the new Unit “will focus on lenders that prey on seniors, families with students, and military service members, including for-profit colleges and mortgage and student…