US - Five Ohio pension funds have filed a lawsuit against the three ratings agencies for allegedly providing strong ratings to mortgage backed securities in exchange for kickbacks from the issuing firms.
Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray claimed the inflated ratings issued by Moody's Investors Services, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's eventually cost the pension funds US$457m. Cordray fi...
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