Sanford

Times staff writers Lauren Ng and Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this report.

Staff writer Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this article.

Times staff writer Karla Marie Sanford contributed to this report.

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.