On Thursday, in a post regarding the legal assault on the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, we noted that the aggrieved party that has been weaponized to kill the agency on behalf of the White House, Congressional Republicans, and every swindler working in the American economy was a corrupt mortgage-lending company called PHH, which the CFPB dunned for $109 million over a kickback scheme between the corporation and various mortgage-servicing companies. While its lawyers have been gussying up its scams in constitutional raiment, the company is out there doing business the way it always has. From OregonLive:

The Marine Corps called him back to Iraq and Afghanistan for three more tours. He was in Fallujah in Iraq's "bloody triangle" during the surge. In all, he spent about four years in the Middle East. In between deployments, McGreevey would return to Vancouver, where he managed to buy a house on Northeast 24th Court. But the years overseas took a toll. He says he made a fateful mistake: trusting someone else to make the mortgage payment. He returned from his third tour in June 2010, just in time to watch PHH Mortgage repossess his house. Knowing next to nothing about the consumer protections afforded him as a member of the military, McGreevey didn't contest it. The foreclosure became final on Sept. 10. McGreevey's final deployment ended in 2012. He had advanced from private to staff sergeant. Though diagnosed 80 percent disabled with post-traumatic stress syndrome, hearing loss and a back injury, he set about reinventing himself for civilian life. He earned a business degree from Portland State University and got a job at a bank.

So, yes, PHH foreclosed on a veteran while he was on his third tour in the Middle East. Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Luckily, there is something called the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act that is supposed to protect members of the military serving overseas from having done to them exactly what PHH did to Jacob McGreevey. He got legal help and took PHH to court. Then, something happened.

What neither McGreevey nor Riddell anticipated was that PHH Mortgage wasn't going to be their only adversary. Five months after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a major initiative to crack down on financial institutions taking advantage of active-duty service members, the agency intervened in McGreevey's case. But it didn't come in on the side of the Marine.It went with the lender.

The United States Department of Justice—Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, proprietor—has intervened on the side of a corrupt corporation and against a serviceman done dirt by that corrupt corporation. It already has filed a brief on behalf of PHH in the federal lawsuit against the CPFB. Certainly, it wouldn't have done PHH any good to be revealed as turning out a veteran while Ted Olson's back in Washington portraying the company as the poor victim of federal regulatory overreach. So the Justice Department—your Justice Department, in theory, anyway—intervenes in the Oregon case.

This, by the way, is the same kind of thinking that got the FBI in Boston in bed with Whitey Bulger. If you want to know who the real owners of this government are, this is as good a window into them as any. Let's spend the next three days proclaiming our love for The Troops.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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