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Since its inception, taxpayers spent $7.6 billion on the CFPB, but the Bureau returned $21 billion to consumers — about $2.76 for each dollar spent, said Mallory SoRelle, an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection.

He was arrested in January on Florida charges connected to a threat he made to a religious organization in Sanford, Fla., prosecutors said.

Seeing Cox in “Orange Is the New Black” inspired him to approach her to collaborate on a new version of a story about a widower cohabiting with their adult child, one that replaces Fred Sanford’s all-purpose cantankerousness with acceptance and affection.

In an interview with Birmingham’s ABC affiliate, Wallace said he’d initially pitched Lear on rebooting “Sanford & Son.”

“I went to Norman Lear, who I’d known since the ’90s, and I said, ‘You rebooting everything else! Let’s reboot ‘Sanford and Son,’ ” he recalls over Zoom, sitting next to his “Clean Slate” co-star, Laverne Cox.