The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Bank of America to pay a $12M penalty “for submitting false mortgage lending information to the federal government under a long-standing federal law. “For at least four years, hundreds of Bank of America loan officers failed to ask mortgage applicants certain demographic questions as required under federal law, and then falsely reported that the applicants had chosen not to respond, the agency said in a statement.
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