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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Spitzer</p>           WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court has decide to consider if New York Attorney General's Office should be investigating the mortgage lending practices of some national banks.<br /><br />Attorney General Andrew Cuomo <a href=\"http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/218308-cuomo-mortgage-brokers-come-to-agreement\" class=\"copy\">recently settled </a>with a pair of mortgage brokerage companies he claimed were charging higher fees to minority customers, though it was Eliot Spitzer who initiated the investigation of several large banks in 2005.<br /><br />Spitzer later became governor and resigned following a prostitution scandal.<br /><br />Cuomo's brief is due Feb. 25.<br /><br />Spitzer's investigation included records requests sent to many banks, including Wells Fargo and Citigroup. Spitzer sought information on mortgage rates to minorities.<br /><br />The federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a group of banks successfully had Spitzer's probe blocked.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach John O'Brien by e-mail at john@legalnewsline.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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