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Byline: Renae Merle Over the past 2û years, Mick Mulvaney's former chief of staff has been a key lobbyist for one of the country's largest payday lenders, giving the industry [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and David Weigel Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday introduced legislation to give the country's public housing units an energy-efficiency overhaul, their first attempt [...]

Byline: Greg Bensinger and Renae Merle Google is wading into the highly competitive world of banking, adding to its long line of businesses as regulators scrutinize tech giants for potential [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday extended protection that halts scores of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family, who [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Billing himself as one of President Trump's top fundraisers, Michael Hodges told fellow payday lenders recently that industry contributions to the president's reelection campaign could be leveraged [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Devlin Barrett NEW YORK - Two indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they violated campaign finance law and conspired to use [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Devlin Barrett Two men charged in a campaign finance case involving business associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in New York. [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday temporarily halted scores of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, and its owners, the Sackler family, a request opposed [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Lenny Bernstein WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Purdue Pharma LP is based in Connecticut and incorporated in Delaware. Yet the company at the center of the opioid [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Tracy Jan Over the past year, private prison giants CoreCivic and GEO Group have been abandoned by Wall Street and seen their stock prices plummet. Activists [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Mike DeBonis NEW YORK - Rep. Chris Collins is resigning from Congress and expected to plead guilty to insider-trading charges Tuesday after allegations last year that [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Mike DeBonis NEW YORK - Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., is resigning from Congress and expected to plead guilty to insider-trading charges on Tuesday, following allegations last [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Monday took a critical step toward releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control, agreeing to allow the mortgage giants [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Mike DeBonis Rep. Chris Collins, President Donald Trump's first congressional supporter, is expected to plead guilty to insider trading charges on Tuesday, following charges last year [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Rachel Siegel After a six-month search, Wells Fargo on Friday announced its new chief executive, tasking a banking industry veteran with turning around the more than [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Over the last eight years, JPMorgan Chase, the country's largest bank, has repeatedly resolved federal investigations by striking a deal: It wouldn't be prosecuted as long as [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Deanna Paul NEW YORK - A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday stayed a subpoena seeking eight years of President Donald Trump's tax records for 24 [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Lenny Bernstein In 2008, as Purdue Pharma was searching for a new chief executive, Richard Sackler received a memo from an adviser. 'In the event that [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan and Renae Merle WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's plan to overhaul the country's housing finance system would make mortgages more expensive for minority borrowers and aspiring homeowners [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The Trump administration's vast plan for remaking the housing market could leave future home buyers, particularly those who are lower income, with fewer options and less resources, [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday released a sweeping plan that could remake the U.S. housing market, starting with ending more than a decade of [...]

Byline: Lenny Bernstein, Aaron C. Davis, Christopher Rowland and Renae Merle The Sackler family, which grew into one of the nation's wealthiest dynasties through sales of the widely abused painkiller [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Matt Zapotosky NEW YORK - One by one, the women stood in court, fighting back tears as they described how Jeffrey Epstein coerced and abused them, [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Deanna Paul NEW YORK - It was not the day in court they had envisioned, but it was, nonetheless, a day in court - a day [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Deutsche Bank had repeatedly failed to secure work with a Russian government entity when it was approached with a proposal: hire the daughter of a high-ranking official [...]

Byline: Renae Merle NEW YORK - Attorneys for Deutsche Bank and Capital One repeatedly refused to tell a federal appeals court on Friday whether the banks have President Donald Trump's [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The Justice Department is siding with President Donald Trump in his fight to keep his banking records out of the hands of House Democrats. A panel of [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The hacker who accessed 100 million credit card applications during a massive hack of Virginia-based Capital One also had stolen data from 'more than 30 other companies,' [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The Seattle software engineer accused of illegally accessing more than 100 million credit card applications during a massive hack of Virginia-based Capital One also had stolen data [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Renae Merle and Carol D. Leonnig Jeffrey Epstein, the politically connected financier charged recently with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky and Renae Merle Jeffrey Epstein, the politically connected financier and registered sex offender charged recently with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, has [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The Trump administration has eagerly pursued arrests of undocumented immigrants over the last two years culminating in a record-setting raid of Mississippi poultry plants this week. But [...]

Byline: Renae Merle By last year, Terrie Raymer thought she was in the clear. A nearly $14,000 credit card debt she owed Target was now so old under Oklahoma's laws [...]

Byline: Renae Merle The Federal Reserve announced Monday it will develop a service to eliminate the frustrating delay many Americans face between when they deposit a check and when it's [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Matt Zapotosky NEW YORK - Registered sex offender and multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is expected to face a four- to six-week trial on charges he sexually abused [...]

Byline: Renae Merle A former top Trump administration appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 'may have abused his authority' and 'misused his position for private gain' in an attempt [...]

Byline: Renae Merle A growing chorus of critics in government and the financial sector has raised concerns about Facebook's plans to create a global currency. This week, two hearings in [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Matt Zapotosky NEW YORK - Multimillionaire and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will remain jailed while he awaits trial on new allegations that he sexually abused [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WASHINGTON - Facebook's efforts to garner support from lawmakers for its launch of a global cryptocurrency, Libra, hit another snag during a contentious House committee hearing Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WASHINGTON - Skeptical lawmakers questioned Facebook's plan to help create a global currency Tuesday, arguing that the Silicon Valley giant is seeking unprecedented influence over the financial [...]

Byline: Renae Merle WASHINGTON - Facebook's plans to launch a global currency, known as Libra, has ignited a bipartisan and international backlash. On Tuesday, the technology giant will face some [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Matt Zapotosky NEW YORK - Two women who say they were sexually abused by jet-setting financier Jeffrey Epstein stood just feet from the multimillionaire in a [...]

Byline: Renae Merle and Matt Zapotosky NEW YORK - Two women who say they were sexually abused by jet-setting financier Jeffrey Epstein stood just feet from the multimillionaire in a [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Kimberly Kindy and Renae Merle WASHINGTON - The way Alex Acosta tells it, the story is simple. Federal prosecutors in Florida could have taken multimillionaire [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky, Renae Merle and Devlin Barrett Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed new sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, alleging the politically connected multimillionaire abused dozens of female minors [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Investigations surrounding Deutsche Bank's more than decade-long relationship with President Donald Trump and his business have created a crisis for the German financial giant. It's caught in [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford and Renae Merle Bank of America, one of the nation's largest financial institutions, announced that it would cease lending to the private prison industry. The decision announced [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Walmart, the country's largest retailer, on Thursday agreed to pay $282 million to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it ignored evidence of internal corruption for [...]

Byline: Renae Merle Eric Blankenstein, a senior Trump appointee, announced he was leaving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month after he was forced to apologize for online posts he [...]

Byline: Renae Merle NEW YORK -- A federal judge failed to properly scrutinize congressional subpoenas for President Donald Trump's banking records before rejecting the president's request that the inquiries be [...]