Wow. I heard about this on PBS Newshour last night and hadn’t really read it anywhere else.
Hard to know the reason for dropping the suit, no quid pro quo has been proven. However certainly as much or more evidence of something sinister as the Clinton Foundation Uranium One story Fox has been pushing. Interesting no democrats have called for an investigation.
As soon as Mulvaney is appointed director of the CFPB the agency drops suits against payday lenders without explanation. Reporting shows that when he was in congress in the 2015 -16 campaign season he received over 31,000 in contributions from payday lenders.
I get sexual harassment is big news, but from my perspective this is a much more troubling story as far as showing them hypocrites and crooks. Imagine if it was Cordray and Obama was president.