Revolving door swings as feds take posh jobs at big banks

Three of the top four officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have jumped from CFPB to lucrative posts representing financial services industry firms their former agency regulates, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.

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The latest of the departures is Quyen Truong, formerly deputy general counsel, who accepted a position this month with the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Truong’s new law firm represents banks such as Citigroup, Bank of America Merill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse and Deutsch Bank. The company also assists high-flying hedge funds including Carlyle Group, JP Morgan Asset Management and Goldman Sachs, according to its website.

Truong was preceded out the door by her former boss at CFPB, General Counsel Meredith Fuchs, who left in February to join Capital One.

At the time of her departure, Fuchs was also the bureau’s acting deputy director, having replaced Steven Antonakes who left to join Eastern Bank last summer as a senior vice president and chief compliance officer. Eastern Bank is the largest and oldest mutual bank in the country.

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