- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2024-08-27T19:12:00
Los Angeles will pay more than $38 million to resolve allegations, first brought by two whistleblower, that for a decade the city knowingly shut people with disabilities out of affordable housing created through federal funds, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
LA received funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create affordable, multifamily housing, but ignored requirements to make at least 5 percent of the apartments accessible to people with mobility challenges and at least 2 percent accessible for people with visual impairments, the DOJ announced in a press release Monday.
The case resolves claims brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Mei Ling, a mobility challenged resident, and the Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley, according to LA’s settlement agreement. The DOJ intervened and filed a complaint against the city in 2017. The whistleblowers will receive an undetermined amount of the settlement total.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is charging Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by “encouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the company’s advertising platform.”
Facebook will pay $5 million and implement a series of anti-discrimination policies to settle a lawsuit brought against it by national fair-housing advocates.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced a complaint against Facebook for “violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing landlords and home sellers to use its advertising platform to engage in housing discrimination.”
USAA Federal Savings Bank has been hit with its third cease and desist order from the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the past five years for failing to correct unsafe and unsound banking practices.
Becton Dickinson medical device company will pay $175 million for “repeatedly” misleading investors about its Alaris infusion pump, a product the company knew was flawed and was sold without the required patient-safety approvals, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged bankrupt fashion retailer Express with failing to disclose nearly $1 million in perks to a former chief executive, but did not levy a financial penalty thanks to its cooperation, the SEC said.
