The Department of Justice today filed its largest residential fair lending settlement in history to resolve allegations that Countrywide Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries engaged in a widespread pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers in their mortgage lending from 2004 through 2008.
WASHINGTON – Kaman Precision Products Inc., an Orlando, Fla., defense contractor, will pay the United States $4.75 million to resolve allegations that the company submitted false claims for non-conforming fuses sold to the U.S. Army for use in “bunkerbuster†bombs, the Justice Department announced today. In addition, the settlement requires Kaman to adhere to a […]
WASHINGTON– A nuclear-armed Iran is “unacceptable†to the United States and no option to prevent that from happening is off the table, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told CBS News.
Two United Nations agencies today called on Russian authorities to conduct an independent and transparent investigation into the recent murder of journalist Khadzhimurad Kamalov in Dagestan and to bring the perpetrators to justice.