#Consumer-Protection
Events indexed under #Consumer-Protection — 39 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-06 | Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Southwest Airlines · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | Consumer watchdog payouts in limbo as agency is defanged by Trump administration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russell Vought | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Musk's DOGE leads systematic CFPB shutdown, raising regulatory conflict concerns Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · Russell Vought · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | CFPB ordered to close offices and cease all work Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Halts CFPB Operations, Freezing Consumer Protection Investigations Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | CFPB offices ordered closed, staff told cannot perform work tasks Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Rohit Chopra | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Trump Administration Expands 'Junk Insurance' Short-Term Plans to Undermine ACA Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Labor · Department of the Treasury · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Judge Finalizes Trump University Settlement After Appeal Resolved, Victims Receive Payments Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-11 | Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-07 | Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-13 | Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability Equifax · Richard Smith · Apache Software Foundation · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-31 | Judge Curiel Approves $25 Million Trump University Settlement, Victims to Receive 90% Refunds Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-18 | Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25 Million, 10 Days After Election Victory Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Eric Schneiderman | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-01 | Trump University Victims Testify to Losing Retirement Savings, Disability Income to Fraudulent Scheme Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg · George Hanus | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-31 | Judge Unseals Trump University Documents Revealing Predatory Sales Playbook Targeting Vulnerable Consumers Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-24 | New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud" Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2010-05-01 | Better Business Bureau Drops Trump University Rating to D- After Flood of Consumer Complaints Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States Ameriquest Mortgage Company · ACC Capital Holdings · State Attorneys General · California Attorney General Bill Lockyer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · American Securities | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-13 | OCC Federal Preemption Blocks State Anti-Predatory Lending Protections OCC · John Hawke Jr · Julie Williams · Eliot Spitzer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Mortgage Bankers Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires President Lyndon B. Johnson · Ralph Nader · General Motors · James Roche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · Chrysler Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1906-06-30 | Roosevelt Signs Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act Theodore Roosevelt · Harvey Washington Wiley · Upton Sinclair · U.S. Congress | confirmed |