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Historic Bill Signing with President Obama

July 21, 2010 By marthacoakley

As your Attorney General for the last three and a half years, I have seen how important this kind of financial reform has become for consumers.  Since the onset of the economic crisis, we’ve worked at the state level to hold Wall Street accountable, recovering money for Massachusetts homeowners and taxpayers. 

In the AG’s Office, we’ve taken legal action on behalf of Massachusetts consumers against banks and Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Fremont Investment and Loan, Countrywide, and Merrill Lynch.  Most recently, we reached a settlement with investment giant Morgan Stanley after an investigation into their role in the securitization and financing of subprime loans that will return $102 million to affected Massachusetts homeowners and the Commonwealth. 

We’ve had some major successes – overall, recovering over $440 million in relief for investors and borrowers, providing mortgage relief for more than 15,000 homeowners, and returning over $50 million in taxpayer funds to the Commonwealth. However, it has remained clear that as we move forward and attempt to prevent this kind of meltdown from happening again, we’ve also needed meaningful reform at the national level.

I’m pleased that this reform bill includes the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, housed in the Federal Reserve, which will have the power to generate and enforce meaningful consumer protections over banks, financial institutions, payday lenders, check cashers, and others.  It’s also good news that our office, and Attorneys General across the country, will not face significant pre-emption from new federal reforms, and have been granted the power to enforce certain protections issued by this new Bureau. 

Wall Street reform as passed today is just one step forward – but it is a significant one. It will help ensure that Massachusetts residents are better protected from abusive lending practices, and will not only help stabilize our economy, but will also help prevent future meltdowns. I want to commend the leadership of Congressman Barney Frank in crafting and passing these reforms, and for assuring that states continue to play a meaningful role in protecting consumers and taxpayers. Kudos to the House, Senate, and President Obama for this bill’s passage.

Learn more about this new law on www.WhiteHouse.gov.

Martha Coakley
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Comments

  1. mannygoldstein says

    July 21, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    Instead of the 52-page Glass-Steagall Act that kept us safe for 70-odd years, we now have 2000+ pages of a new experiment, crafted by legions of lobbyists.

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    p>At least that’s how it looks to me.

    • mannygoldstein says

      July 21, 2010 at 11:37 pm

      30% for credit cards?  Not only is this staggeringly immoral, it’s what’s causing the economy to crash back into the rocks as consumers can’t afford to spend after servicing their debt.

      • lasthorseman says

        July 24, 2010 at 6:58 am

        on “cash advances”.

  2. howland-lew-natick says

    July 21, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    So the step forward is to render unto the Federal Reserve, an unaudited private bank, an organization under the control of other banks, the power to regulate the economy?  Why do I not feel that letting the inmates run the asylum is good?

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    p>It was a hero of mine, Franklin Roosevelt, that called them “banksters”.  He had a reason.

  3. joets says

    July 21, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    It just brings a tear to my eye to hear the national anthem on a day like this.  

  4. hubspoke says

    July 22, 2010 at 10:58 am

    Like health reform, another half a loaf when we really need a whole loaf. But half is better than none.

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