Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss FDICs Legal Action; NCUA Files Suit to Recover $2.4 Billion in MBS Losses
October 4, 2013
A Manhattan federal judge last week rebuffed a motion by a number of major lenders to dismiss a bid by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. against the firms in connection with $388 million of non-agency MBS sold to the now-defunct Colonial Bank. The FDIC filed its complaint in August 2012, alleging that the defendants including JPMorgan, CitiGroup, Ally Securities, First Horizon, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo placed poor-quality loans in the 11 underlying residential MBS and then misled investors by marking them as safe investments. Montgomery, AL-based Colonial Bank failed...