San Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo will pay $1.2 billion to settle a mortgage-related lawsuit brought by two U.S. attorneys, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The regulators filed the case in 2012, alleging Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) had misused government money for the “reckless origination and underwriting” of federally backed mortgages.
Regulators filed a rash of lawsuit against lenders it said had improperly used… …read more
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