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LOS ANGELES - (Mealey's) Countrywide Financial Corp. will pay $500 million to shareholders in three related securities class action lawsuits to settle claims that it misrepresented the investment quality of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) in what...

LOS ANGELES - Countrywide Financial Corp. has agreed to pay $335 million to settle claims by the U.S. government that the lender and its subsidiaries engaged in discriminatory lending practices by steering African-American and Hispanic borrowers toward...

LOS ANGELES — (Mealey’s) The lead plaintiffs in a consolidated class action complaint against former subprime mortgage lending giant Countrywide Financial Corp. (CFC) and others for alleged violations of federal securities laws announced a...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) The U.S. government on Oct. 24 filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Bank of America Corp., as successor for Countrywide Financial Corp., alleging that Countrywide violated provisions of the False Claims Act by engaging in a scheme...