ML-Implode News - Woman Who Couldn't Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million

By 2006, the bank was buying mortgages from outside lenders with doctored tax forms, phony appraisals and missing signatures, she says. It was Hunt's job to identify these defects, and she did, in regular reports to her bosses.
Executives buried her findings, Hunt says, before, during and after the financial crisis, and even into 2012.
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"All a dishonest person had to do was change the reports to make things look better than they were," Hunt says. "I wouldn't play along."
Instead, she took her employer to court -- and won. In August 2011, five months after the meeting with Polkinghorne, Hunt sued Citigroup in Manhattan federal court, accusing its home-loan division of systematically violating U.S. mortgage regulations.

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Woman Who Couldn't Be Intimidated by Citigroup Wins $31 Million