2013-11-08bloomberg.com

``U.S. attorneys in San Francisco have been examining Wells Fargo, the nation's largest mortgage lender, for more than a year, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the inquiry isn't public. Authorities are investigating whether the firm violated the Financial Institution Reform and Recovery Act. The law, known as FIRREA, carries a 10-year statute of limitations and allows the government to sue for fraud affecting a federally insured financial institution. ''



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