Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s to be the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has announced a series of appointments to the agency, according to a published report which cites a memo was circulated yesterday.
Among the six people named in the memo yesterday, three of them will continue their existing jobs and the other three will be employed full-time at the CFPB.
John Czwartacki, the director of communications at the Office of Management & Budget, Emma Doyle, the OMB’s chief of staff, and James Galkwoski, a special assistant to Mulvaney at the OMB, will assume the same roles at the CFPB.
Eric Blankenstein is joining the CFPB from the Office of United States Trade Representative. According to his LinkedIn profile, while working at Williams and Connolly, Blankenstein defended a financial institution that was being investigated by the CFPB for alleged violations of Dodd-Frank Act and Electronic Fund Transfer Act. Blankenstein’s LinkedIn profile lists him as a senior advisor at the CFPB.
Sheila Greenwood, the chief of staff at the Department of Housing & Urban Development, is also joining the CFPB. Greenwood previously worked as vice president of public affairs at Prudential Financial and also worked in government affairs at Citigroup. It was not immediately clear what role Greenwood would take at the agency.
Brian Johnson, who previously spent five years working at the House Financial Services Committee, was hired by Mulvaney earlier this month. Johnson’s LinkedIn profile lists hm as a “Senior Advisor to the Director.”
Mulvaney apparently has no fears about losing a lawsuit filed against him and President Trump by Leandra English, who is also claiming to be the CFPB’s acting director.
