Illinois AG Goes After Countrywide Again, This Time for Allegedly Steering Blacks, Latinos into Harmful Mortgages
July 8, 2010
Nearly two years after spearheading a multi-state anti-predatory lending lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp., the Illinois Office of the Attorney General again filed a lawsuit against the once-largest independent mortgage lender in the country for allegedly targeting minorities with subprime mortgages that later turned bad. The lawsuit announced by Attorney General Lisa Madigan...