Monday, February 4, 2013

Riled up by ratings: S&P set to be sued




You can rate the chances the Justice Department will sue Standard & Poor’s over its mortgage bond ratings AAA, sources tell The Post.

Federal regulators, along with as many as a dozen state attorneys general, are expected to sue the ratings agency for allegedly giving top grades to baskets of mortgage bonds even though the paper inside those bundles was toxic, subprime loans.

The suit could be announced as soon as this morning, sources said.  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, not among the group, is said to be weighing his own action against S&P...

Read all about it at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/riled_up_by_ratings_qivXFb4cdz5Ji8rM1vypSN

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