The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has once
again sued Freedom Mortgage Corp., one of the nation’s largest mortgage
lenders, for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) violations, as well as for
failing to comply with a previous consent order citing prevalent data reporting
errors.
The lawsuit comes less than two months after a separate
enforcement action in August in which the CFPB fined Freedom Mortgage $1.75
million for providing illegal kickback payments for loan referrals – violations
the company also was cited for in 2019.