A woman dressed as the Monopoly man sat behind former CEO of Equifax, Richard Smith, while he testified in front of the Senate on Wednesday.
Amanda Werner, arbitration campaign manager for the progressive advocacy group Public Citizen, was decked out in a suit, top hat, monocle, and trademark white mustache during the Senate Banking Committee hearing investigating the massive Equifax hack affecting over 140 million Americans.
At one point, the “Monopoly Man” allegedly pulled some money out of a giant bag with a dollar sign and wiped his brow.
I definitely want to know more about the plans of this man sitting behind the Equifax CEO in Sen. banking hearing in a monopoly man outfit. pic.twitter.com/dwfukJJTA7
— Hannah Levintova (@H_Lev) October 4, 2017
I don't have video of it (yet!) but the Monopoly Man at the Equifax hearing allegedly wiped his brow with a dollar bill earlier pic.twitter.com/Ocuy80hnFL
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) October 4, 2017
In a statement, Public Citizen said the “Monopoly Man” appeared to bring attention to forced arbitration clauses they say Equifax uses to avoid punishment and exploit customers – a “get out of jail free card.”
“Make no mistake: Arbitration is a rigged game, one that the bank nearly always wins,” Werner said. “Shockingly, the average consumer forced to arbitrate with Wells Fargo was ordered to pay the bank nearly $11,000. Bank lobbyists and their allies in Congress are trying to overturn the CFPB’s rule so they can continue to rip off consumers with impunity.”
Equifax came under fire for including a clause in their TOS which barred victims of the hack from suing the company if they utilized a free credit monitoring service – a policy the company quickly clarified did not apply to those affected by the breach.
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I see we are in the monocled timeline here.
The Mandella effect
that’ll teach Equifax