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Volume 22 - Number 10

May 9, 2011

DoJ, HUD Sue Deutsche Bank, MortgageIT, Eschew Admin.

The Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced they had filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and its wholly owned subsidiary, MortgageIT, over some of its FHA lending practices...

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