Kirsten Joy Sutton (Mork) “runs the day-to-day operations of the CFPB” as the bureau’s Chief of Staff.
- Served for nearly a decade as a senior aide to former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), who was deeply in the pocket of Wall Street interests and known as one of the fiercest opponents of the CFPB.
- Hensarling 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.’”
- Worked as a corporate lobbyist for American Airlines and Verizon while both companies engaged in alleged consumer abuses that prompted millions of dollars in settlements.
- Wrote an all-staff memo upon arriving at the CFPB declaring the agency would do nothing more than the bare minimum of what the law required, spelling out then-Acting Director Mulvaney’s vision of doing as little as possible to protect consumers.
- Played a central role in the CFPB’s response to revelations that politically-appointed CFPB official Eric Blankenstein authored racist and sexist bog posts, working alongside Blankenstein and other political staff to try and quell internal dissent and negative media coverage.