Politico, June 19, 2019: HUD hires former official at center of racial scandal
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has hired Eric Blankenstein, the former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official whose racially charged blog posts sparked an uproar last year.
Democrats and civil rights activists demanded that the CFPB fire Blankenstein after the Washington Post reported in September that he had questioned the veracity of hate crimes and whether the N-word is racist, in blog posts he wrote 14 years earlier.
Blankenstein will report to HUD’s principal deputy general counsel starting Monday, the people said.
