CfA additionally Calls for a study of Payday Lending Lobbyists for neglecting to reveal conferences with CFPB Officials

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Campaign for Accountability (“CfA”), a nonprofit watchdog team dedicated to general public accountability, released an innovative new report, Academic for Hire, exposing that an attorney when it comes to payday financing industry, Hilary Miller, funded, designed, and edited a scholastic research protecting the payday financing industry. Mr. Miller, the president associated with credit rating analysis Foundation (“CCRF”) worked closely with Kennesaw State University Professor Jennifer Priestley to build up a report when it comes to lending that is payday to use to lobby against federal federal federal government laws that will have protected customers from payday loan providers.

CfA Executive Director Daniel E. Stevens stated, “Hilary Miller has offered while the payday financing industry’s academic-in-residence, recruiting pliant professors and ghostwriting obsequious studies to allow them to publish. Dr. Priestley’s willingness to create a paper for the payday financing industry had not been just an abrogation of her expert obligations, but it addittionally aided the industry’s efforts to beat federal federal federal government laws built to protect customers.”

In 2015, CfA presented an available records request to KSU, a public college in Georgia, searching for all communications between Mr. Miller and Dr. Priestley. CCRF filed a lawsuit to stop KSU from releasing the documents, forcing CfA to intervene to get the papers. The Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously sided with CfA and directed KSU to release the documents after more than three years of legal wrangling.

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