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A lawyer from a boutique Milwaukee firm recently scored part of the biggest False Claims Act settlement against the banking industry -- $16.6 billion dollars from Bank of America.
It's just another day (away from) the office for Brian Mahany. His client Shareef Abdou was one of three individual whistle blowers, who along with a mortgage company, split some $170 million in awards paid to them as the whistle blowers that started the massive fraud case against the banking giant.
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Nov 4 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Retained to represent a former employee of a mortgage brokerage after he unsuccessfully sued over allegedly unpaid commissions, a tiny Milwaukee, Wis., law firm wound up with a monster case. Researching Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp. for Peter Belli's appeal, the Mahany & Ertl firm discovered Allied had the highest mortgage default rate in the nation, topping 50 percent, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on its Proof &...