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Modern-Day Redlining Enforcement: A New Baseline

October 28, 2021 By Nanci Weissgold, Brian Johnson, Melissa Malpass and Anoush Garakani

On October 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an aggressive new initiative, in collaboration with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country, to combat the practice of redlining. Three days prior, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was said to be hiring up to 30 new enforcement attorneys to focus on redlining and […]

Filed Under: Banking Regulatory Agencies, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), Mortgage Loans Tagged With: #CFPB, #redlining, disparate treatment, DOJ, Fair Lending

DOJ Issues Third Iteration of Its Corporate Compliance Guidance

June 12, 2020 By Brian Frey, Edward Kang, Jenny Kramer, Debolina Das and Evan Glasner

The Department of Justice’s Criminal Division began June 2020 by issuing revisions to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance. First published in 2017, and later updated in April 2019, the guidance provides insight into how the Criminal Division assesses a company’s compliance program. Further, it allows companies to proactively implement and strengthen compliance programs to align closely with […]

Filed Under: Department of Justice Tagged With: Covid-19, DOJ

Slaying the Monster? Reduced Risk of False Claims Act Prosecution for FHA Lenders

October 31, 2019 By Nanci Weissgold, Kelley Barnaby, Anoush Garakani and Sam Bragg

A&B Abstract:  In an effort to incent large depository institutions to return to FHA lending, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) and the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”), on October 28, 2019, that delineates HUD’s process for determining whether violations of FHA guidelines should be […]

Filed Under: HUD Tagged With: DOJ, False Claims Act, FCA, FHA, HUD

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