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Hakeem Jeffries: “The effort to hold financial institutions accountable for their actions and to make sure that consumers in the United…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2014
The effort to hold financial institutions accountable for their actions and to make sure that consumers in the United States of America and those that we represent aren't harmed by reckless behavior, seems to be an appropriate thing for the Department of Justice to be engaging in.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries supports DOJ efforts to hold financial institutions accountable for reckless behavior.

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