US - Teamsters Local 282 pension fund has filed a lawsuit against Moody's claiming the credit rating agency misrepresented the risk involved in structured products backed by sub-prime mortgages.
The union pension fund claimed Moody’s assigned excessively high ratings to these types of bonds which were subsequently lowered in July following market tremors. However, the company struck bac...
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