{"id":197833,"date":"2008-01-08T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/baltimore-city-is-suing-wells-fargo-over-subprime-loans\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:46:00","slug":"baltimore-city-is-suing-wells-fargo-over-subprime-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/08\/baltimore-city-is-suing-wells-fargo-over-subprime-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore City is Suing Wells Fargo Over Subprime Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/08\/us\/08baltimore.html\">City of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo<\/a>, claiming that, &#8220;contending that its lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures that has reduced city tax revenues and increased its costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I expect this to be the first of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">many<\/span> such suits from local governments taking it on the chin from foreclosures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo, claiming that, &#8220;contending that its lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led to a wave of foreclosures that has reduced city tax revenues and increased its costs.&#8221; I expect this to be the first of many such suits from local governments taking it on the chin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,970,1265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-corruption","category-housing-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}