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CFPB says employee breached data of 250,000 consumers in ‘major incident’

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“This breach raises concerns with how the CFPB safeguards consumers’ personally identifiable information,” House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry said in a statement. “Republicans will ensure any bad actors are held accountable.”
CFPB spokesperson Sam Gilford said the bureau has referred the matter to the inspector general and is “taking appropriate action to address this incident.”
“The CFPB takes data privacy very seriously, and this unauthorized transfer of personal and confidential data is completely unacceptable,” Gilford said. “All CFPB employees are trained in their obligations under bureau regulations and Federal law to safeguard confidential or personal information.”
Agency staff told lawmakers they had learned of the breach on Feb. 14 in an email notifying them about the “major incident” that they sent on March 21.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the story.
Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), chair of the Financial Services Committee’s investigations panel, asked for a briefing no later than April 25 on the “mitigation and remediation efforts, the scale of the breach, as well as efforts made to give the appropriate notifications” in a letter to Chopra Tuesday.
“My understanding is that the transfer of records could have possibly implicated more than 50 financial institutions’ sensitive information,” Huizenga wrote. “If these facts prove to be true, the effects could be widespread and injurious.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, also pressed Chopra for details Wednesday in a letter requesting his own briefing by May 8.

Scott said the agency’s recent rule requesting small business lending data — including personally identifiable information — is “highly concerning given that the CFPB has provided limited insight to Congress into the CFPB’s data management practices and efforts to ensure the privacy of consumer and small business data.”
A spokesperson for Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown said the agency “followed protocols” by notifying congressional oversight committees.
“The CFPB has taken every step required of the agency, and any wrongdoers must be held accountable for misconduct,” Brown spokesperson Alysa James said.
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April 20, 2023
Judge sentences Jan. 6 defendant who breached Pelosi’s office to 36 months in prison

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Jackson’s sentence was the close of one of the earliest sagas to emerge after the Jan. 6 attack. Williams was one of the first felony defendants charged, and she was suspected at the time of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop, in part because she told friends that she did.
A jury convicted Williams in December of civil disorder and resisting police but deadlocked on a charge that Williams obstructed Congress and abetted the theft of Pelosi’s laptop. Williams is on tape entering Pelosi’s conference room while other rioters took the laptop, and she encouraged them to steal it, but Williams’ lawyers contended that it was unclear if the other rioters heard her comment.
Jackson spent much of her sentencing colloquy dismantling the defense’s claim that Williams was too young or too small to be responsible for the grave offenses the government charged. The defense team leaned on Williams’ youthful demeanor and the fact that she seemed briefly confused about which building was being stormed — calling it the White House as she approached. But Jackson said any momentary confusion Williams expressed was clarified by her repeated acknowledgment of why she was there.
It was not, Jackson emphasized, “because her dizzy little head was confused about which building in Washington was which.”
Fuentes, she noted, was born the same year as Williams. People can sign up for the military at 18, she added, noting that Williams was old enough on Jan. 6 to have completed a tour of duty. John Lewis was 21 when he became a freedom fighter, Jackson added.
“She was old enough to be one of the police officers she resisted,” Jackson said.
Jackson also took on the defense’s repeated assertions about Williams’ diminutive stature, noting that figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Liz Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had all achieved prominence despite their size.
“Riley June Williams was old enough and tall enough to be held accountable for her actions,” Jackson said.

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March 23, 2023
‘A f–king idiot’: Man who breached Pelosi suite says he’s guilty of bluster, not crime

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It was a climactic moment as a milestone Jan. 6 prosecution neared its conclusion. Barnett’s image at the desk in Pelosi’s office became a symbol of the brazenness of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the vulnerability of a key institution attempting to fulfill its responsibility to certify the 2020 election. The case was poised to head to the jury Friday afternoon, with a verdict likely early next week.
In lengthy, tense cross-examination, Gordon raised sharp doubts about key aspects of Barnett’s Jan. 6 story. Barnett contended that he climbed the center steps of the Capitol to gain a vantage point to find two friends who he lost in the chaos. He then claimed that he was “pushed” into the Capitol after getting stuck in a densely packed crowd near the rotunda doors. He said he roamed around the building merely looking for a bathroom, and found himself in Pelosi’s office suite.
Then, he claimed he got caught up in the moment and acted foolishly by posing for a photo at the desk of Pelosi aide Emily Berret. He claimed he took an envelope off Berret’s desk — meant for then-Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) – and left a quarter as compensation. He didn’t consider it theft, he said, because he paid for the envelope and removed it because he had bled all over it and wanted to remove the “biohazard.”
Gordon suggested in questioning that Barnett had ample opportunities to turn around and leave the Capitol before he entered the building and that he never once asked an officer for help finding a bathroom. And despite his purported concerns about the tainted envelope, he held onto it for days before throwing it, unsealed, onto the table in his interview with the FBI. The truth is, Gordon said, Barnett took the envelope as a “trophy.”
“You don’t know the truth, sir,” Barnett shot back.
Video evidence played during the trial showed Barnett waving the bloodstained envelope outside the Capitol, boasting about his jaunt inside Pelosi’s office suite and the note he left on her desk: “Nancy, Bigo was here, bi-otch.” Prosecutors noted that Barnett tried — while in jail for his alleged Jan. 6 crimes — to have his partner copyright the phrase.
Throughout his cross-examination, Barnett repeatedly spoke over Gordon’s questioning, often going on tangents or digressions that prompted admonishments from the judge and from Gordon. As Gordon’s questioning drew to a close, Barnett at times grew agitated with the pointed inquiries, saying he was “getting quite tired of it.”
“I ain’t breaking down,” Barnett said after a particularly tense exchange. “I’ve made mistakes. I went through hell up there. The officers went through hell up there. … I’m struggling with this.”

Gordon homed in on Barnett’s interaction with two police officers who sought to usher him from Pelosi’s suite. He yelled about “communism” during the first interaction, and during the second, he told the officer “We’re in a war. Pick a side. Don’t be on the wrong side or you’re going to get hurt.”
Barnett said he was just “blustering” and that he never meant he would be the one to hurt the officer.
Barnett’s defense attorneys emphasized that he is prone to hyperbole and had no criminal history, that he never committed violence inside the Capitol and turned himself in to law enforcement after driving home to Arkansas. In addition to Barnett’s testimony, his wife Tammy Newburn and his cousin Eileen Halpin testified on his behalf, describing him as a quirky, gregarious but well-liked member of his community.
Barnett began his testimony by indicating he regretted his actions toward Pelosi and for going to D.C. at all.
But prosecutors emphasized that Barnett repeatedly agitated against people who supported certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory, that he viewed “patriots” as people who opposed Biden’s election and repeatedly suggested he would do anything to prevent Biden from taking office.
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January 21, 2023