Until the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided to embark on its lavish, over-the-top renovation for its downtown Washington, D.C headquarters, Korean immigrant Matthew Kimwon believed he was living the American dream.
But all of his hopes and dreams vanished when federal bureaucrats at the CFPB and at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — which technically was the landlord — sought to unilaterally tear up his lease which still had a five-year option.