Waters urges CFPB employees to be whistleblowers
By 
Joe Mont2019-02-25T13:00:00
Rep. Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has written an open letter to CFPB employees urging them to be proud of their work and use a whistleblower hotline to report anything undermining those efforts.
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