{"id":462714,"date":"2010-03-23T07:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/23\/in-the-loop-the-pay-day-lenders-ties-to-powerful-beltway-influence-peddlers\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:47:25","slug":"in-the-loop-the-pay-day-lenders%e2%80%99-ties-to-powerful-beltway-influence-peddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462714","title":{"rendered":"In The Loop: The Pay-Day Lenders\u2019 Ties To Powerful Beltway Influence-Peddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/tsHzER_ZhDQ\/in_the_loop_the_pay-day_lenders_ties_to_powerful_beltway_influence-peddlers.php\" >In The Loop: The Pay-Day Lenders&#8217; Ties To Powerful Beltway Influence-Peddlers \t\t<\/a><br \/>The pay-day lending industry has ties to a well-regarded DC consulting firm founded by top former Clinton administration staffers, a key editor at the Andrew-Breitbart-created website BigGovernment.com, Dick Armey&#8217;s FreedomWorks, and a notorious corporate lobbyist known as &#8220;Dr. Evil.&#8221;<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=154cf73bbe03bfe76941e253c8ab8c73&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=154cf73bbe03bfe76941e253c8ab8c73&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/Z2SAjrKGxvg\/credit_card_firm_we_were_subpoeaned_by_feds_in_ens.php\" >Credit Card Firm: We Were Subpoenaed By Feds In Ensign Case \t\t<\/a><br \/>eCommLink, the Nevada credit card company that reportedly contributed to the NRSC in exchange for help from Sen. John Ensign, has acknowledged that it was subpoenaed in the federal investigation.<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=dff2651bc2102fc3f1d3e0c7cd59586e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=dff2651bc2102fc3f1d3e0c7cd59586e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=dff2651bc2102fc3f1d3e0c7cd59586e&#038;p=8\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=dff2651bc2102fc3f1d3e0c7cd59586e&#038;p=8\"\/><\/a>  \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Loop: The Pay-Day Lenders&#8217; Ties To Powerful Beltway Influence-Peddlers The pay-day lending industry has ties to a well-regarded DC consulting firm founded by top former Clinton administration staffers, a key editor at the Andrew-Breitbart-created website BigGovernment.com, Dick Armey&#8217;s FreedomWorks, and a notorious corporate lobbyist known as &#8220;Dr. Evil.&#8221; Credit Card Firm: We Were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}