Serial donor to Liberal/Far-left candidates, including:
· Biden for President/Biden Victory Fund – 2 donations totaling $3050 in the 2020 cycle.
· Georgia Senate Victory Fund (Benefitting Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff) - $1000 – 12/1/2020.
· Harris for President – $1000 – 08/30/2024.
· DSCC -- $5000 – 9/2/2020.
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As OpenSecrets notes, "Only a tiny fraction of Americans actually give campaign contributions to political candidates, parties or PACs. Just 0.97% of the United States population contributed more than two hundred dollars to federal candidates, PACs, parties, and outside groups [last cycle]" This is the reason campaign contributions are such an instructive tool in analyzing civil servants, because only the most avid partisans - less than one percent - write a check to a candidate.
U.S. Department of Education – July 2021 – Present.
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation – April 2019 – July 2021.
Jones Day – Jan 2016 – April 2019.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – July 2011 – December 2015.
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In September 2020, Mr. Wiggins spoke on a panel hosted by the American Conference Institute titled “State Enforcement in the Trump Era.” The agenda for this panel included discussing increasing state regulatory activity in what Wiggins and his liberal state co-presenters characterized as “decreased federal activity” during the first Trump Administration, as well as discussion into how to turn State AG offices into “Mini-CFPBs”:
This discussion shows that Wiggins was part of a cabal of liberal state regulators that took it upon themselves to re-regulate at the state level what President Trump had de-regulated at the federal level.
Hunter Wiggins has benefited significantly from the revolving door from government to industry then back to government. Wiggins joined Jones Day as a partner, after he had finished his stint as the Deputy Director of Enforcement at CFPB. Wiggins joined the CFPB in 2011, soon after its formation, as deputy enforcement director for policy and strategy and took his latest role in February 2014.
Hunter served for more than four years in senior positions within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Enforcement. He managed all aspects of the CFPB's enforcement program, including the creation of its overall enforcement strategy, and supervised the resolution of market impacting enforcement investigations across a wide range of consumer financial products including mortgage servicing, student loans, electronic payments, and debt collection. This experience made him integral in impacting the growth of the Department of Education, Office of Enforcement. Wiggins is also one of the lawyers for the department on Sweet v. Cardona.
Hunter was previously division counsel at Abbott Laboratories, focused on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance, and internal investigations. He has also been a partner at Dentons, specializing in government investigations, and was deputy assistant director in the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, where he specialized in accounting fraud investigations.
