Quicken vehemently denied the accusation and in April 2015 filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Detroit, accusing the government of “arbitrary and capricious conduct and misuse of power to extort money from lenders.”
"Now having been in the mortgage industry for over 30 years, HUD’s mortgagee letter is perhaps one of the most egregious and ill-advised actions that I have seen taken by a government agency in many years," said Anne Canfield, a partner at Michael Best Strategies.
In late 2015, Quicken executive Bill Emerson complained how DOJ sued based on a paltry sample of the lender’s government-backed loans. “They cherry-picked just 55 loans [for its case],” he said…