The U.S. Department of Justice showed its willingness to go after relative unknowns as well as the name brands in reaching a multi-million-dollar “pattern or practice” fair lending settlement with GFI Mortgage Bankers Inc., the mortgage banking unit of GFI Capital Resources Group that funds roughly $1 billion in residential mortgage loans annually. The federal government alleged that GFI engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination by charging qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers more for their...