Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing

[ehrnst]

Link to tweet

[rock]

1. He's fake!

Monopoly guy does not have a monocle!

[ehrnst]

2. To be fair, he's over 80 yrs old... (nt)

[Bob Loblaw]

5. Maybe he's Mr Peanut

nt

[rock]

7. Now you're talking sense!

Welcome to DU!

[Fritz Walter]

11. (S)he did wear a monocle through some of the hearing

At one point, during Smith's response to Sen. Warren's question, the monocle falls as Amanda's stops twirling her (his?) mustache and shifting her eyes back-and-forth, to make a shocked facial expression.

I don't have the time-point, but the whole video is worth watching.

Just surprised that Amanda got into the gallery with a disguise in the first place, and that she wasn't forcibly removed and detained!

[pansypoo53219]

12. yes he does.

[RandomAccess]

3. I thought his name was Mr. Moneypenny

But no. However, that was the name of a Broadway play in the 1920s

As it turns out, he does have a name:

Rich Uncle Pennybags is the mascot of the game Monopoly. He is depicted as a portly old man with a moustache who wears a morning suit and top hat. Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Uncle_Pennybags

[Orrex]

4. I knew the right answer, but only because of Mr. Burns.

[Bradical79]

15. Renamed to Mr. Monopoly in '99

I prefer the original name myself lol.

[JHan]

6. hahhahahahahahahahaha epic.

[PennyK]

8. Remember Billionaires for Bush?

They were great...this looks very similar.

[tavernier]

13. That was my first thought.

I remember that group - hysterical - and I believe he was one of them.

[diva77]

9. wait-a-minute - was ex CEO of Equifax Richard Smith showing righteous indignation towards

the Monopoly guy?

[oberliner]

10. That's Amanda Werner

She is a campaign manager at the nonprofit advocacy groups Americans for Financial Reform and Public Citizen.

GQ: In what capacity were you at the committee hearing?

Amanda Werner: I was at the hearing today in kind of a lighter fashion than I'm normally there: to call attention to the Republican attempt to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau arbitration rule, and specifically around Wells Fargo and Equifax's attempts to cheat consumers out of our day in court by using forced arbitration.

https://www.gq.com/story/equifax-monopoly-man-interview

[BadgerKid]

14. He is posting on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/74nyxw/im_the_monopoly_man_that_trolled_equifax_ama/

Sorry if this is a duplicate.

[orangecrush]

16. K&R