April 12, 2019

General Electric has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve alleged FIRREA violations committed by its subsidiary, WMC Mortgage, in subprime residential mortgage-backed securities originated between 2005 and 2007. WMC had allegedly encouraged lax quality and fraud controls by compensating loan analysts based on the number of mortgages they approved, resulting in profits of $65 billion in the two-year period. An estimated 78% percent of WMC’s loans contained at least one piece of false information. DOJ

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