Agencies Post their 2015 Chief FOIA Officer Reports during Sunshine Week (US Department of Justice)

(Source: US Department of Justice) Holding Financial Institutions Accountable for Fraud Courtesy of the Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch For decades, the Department of Justice, led by the Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch, has protected the health, safety and economic security of the American consumer. Indeed, since its creation more than 40 years ago, the Consumer Protection Branch has worked tirelessly to combat all types of consumer fraud. But as two of our most recent cases show, fraudsters have become more sophisticated. It used to be that fraud schemes depended on the willingness of unwitting consumers to hand over their hard-earned savings in person or through the...