Andrew M. Duke is the Policy Associate Director for External Affairs for the CFPB, where he “serves as a liaison to the Director’s Office” and helps to lead “the strategic direction for the Division.”
- Served six years as Chief of Staff for former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), known as one of most outspoken critics of the CFPB and a reliable tool of Wall Street interests.
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- Aided Hensarling as he advanced “dozens of proposals” to gut Dodd-Frank’s reforms and the CFPB’s authority, said the agency “must be functionally terminated,” likened its authority to that of “a Soviet-style command and control economy,” and called its powers “positively Orwellian.’”
- Served for over a decade as a top aide to Congressman Robin Hayes (R-NC), who was indicted on corruption charges in North Carolina for attempting to “use campaign contributions to bribe the state’s Insurance Commissioner” and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
- Duke once suggested Hayes would not have entered into a business deal with a transgendered woman had Hayes known her background.
- In 1996, Duke praised Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) as a “‘true conservative’” despite his ugly history of racism.