Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the US Senate’s Equifax hearing
A person dressed in a black top hat and bushy white mustache, occasionally putting a monocle on, sat in the audience of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Equifax data breach
By Liz Moyer
The Monopoly guy has gone to Washington.
A person dressed in a black top hat and bushy white moustache, occasionally putting on a monocle or dabbing forehead sweat with giant paper money, sat in the audience of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Equifax data breach. Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith didn’t seem to notice. The person was dressed to resemble the character Rich Uncle Pennybags from the classic board game.
Smith was there to testify about a data breach that compromised personal identifying information for more than 145 million people. His prepared remarks were similar to those written for his appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he claimed “full responsibility.”
The Monopoly man is part of a protest by a group that wants to draw attention to forced arbitration clauses that are used throughout the financial industry and limit consumers’ ability to take disputes to court.
Turns out the Monopoly guy was a gal.