Representative Brian Fitzpatrick took $1.2 million from Wall Street and the banking industry as he voted to roll back the Dodd-Frank rules that could’ve prevented Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from collapsing.
Throughout his career, Fitzpatrick has taken $1.2 million from Wall Street.
A 2018 CBO analysis of the rollback warned that it would increase the risk of collapse for banks like SVB. Nevertheless, Fitzpatrick listened to corporate lobbyists instead and voted for the Trump-backed Dodd-Frank rollbacks in Congress. After appeasing his banking industry backers, a deregulated SVB collapsed six years later.
“Representative Brian Fitzpatrick is a big-time player in the corrupt system that favors Wall Street and banking executives at the detriment of hard-working people,” said End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller. “Unsurprisingly, Fitzpatrick took $1.2 million from the banking industry and voted to roll back rules that protected the economy from corporate greed. Fitzpatrick sold out regular people for campaign cash, and he should be held accountable.”
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