Lynch to Keep Pressure on Banks Facing Mortgage Probes

Judging by the help-wanted notice that Loretta Lynch posted last year, the freshly confirmed U.S. Attorney General intends to pick up where her predecessor left off and make lenders pay for their role in the subprime crisis.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, New York, which Lynch led twice, said in September that it was hiring as many as seven lawyers to go after corporate fraud, including “pursuing those responsible for misconduct related to mortgage-backed securities.”