Credit Rating Agency

DOJ planning to sue Moody’s over crisis-era mortgage bond ratings 

In the fallout from the financial crisis, many argued that the credit ratings agencies’ competition for business led to ratings shopping among bond issuers and relaxed ratings standards for the ratings agencies themselves. Last year, Standard & Poor’s reached a $1.375 billion settlement over just such claims. And now the Department of Justice is taking aim at Moody’s Investors Service.