The three attorneys—Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton, Special Counsel Brad Rosenberg, and trial attorney Liam Holland—made ''materially misleading'' statements in an effort to assure the court that the administration had no plans to shutter the CFPB, lawyers for the Legal Accountability Center said in complaints filed Thursday with state disciplinary offices.

Internal emails written by CFPB acting Director Russell Vought amounted to a stop-work order for staff, contradicting the government's filings in the case, according to the complaints from the center, which is helmed by legal advocate and attorney Michael Teter.

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.'' Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.