A senior employee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a Congressional hearing that the agency was a hostile workplace where discrimination was rampant against minorities and women. Angela Martin, a senior enforcement attorney at the CFPB, told the House Financial Services Committee that she suffered discrimination at the bureau dating back to May 2012. When she complained about the abuse, Martin claims her boss retaliated by isolating her and diminishing her job duties. "Unfortunately, there is a pervasive culture of retaliation and intimidation that silences employees and chills the workforce from exposing wrongdoing...Many employees have come to me and told me alarming stories of their own maltreatment and the retaliation that resulted when they opposed mismanagement or exercised any individual right," Martin said. Martin settled her complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in August. In a statement, CFPB Director Richard Cordray said: "I take
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