EXCLUSIVE: Obama Consumer Official Leaves Amid Charges He Helped Create ‘Toxic Workplace’

The Daily Caller reports:

One of the officials blamed for creating a “toxic workplace” for women and minorities at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — including running a unit employees nickname “The Plantation” — is leaving the agency, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Scott Pluta, an assistant director of the troubled Office of Consumer Response, told the bureau “he is leaving to pursue another opportunity,” according to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) spokesman Samuel Gilford. Gilford declined to provide any further details.

During his five stormy years at CFPB, Pluta was identified by an independent investigator retained by the bureau of helping to create a “toxic workplace” at the consumer agency, whose creation in 2010 was championed by President Barack Obama and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren was then an Obama political appointee at the Department of the Treasury and the chief architect of the first new agency created by the president.

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