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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Sep 2, 2014, 11:49 AM Sep 2014

New York: Bank didn't lend to blacks in Buffalo

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A bank refused to offer mortgages to African-Americans living in Buffalo, New York's attorney general said in a lawsuit that he said was part of a wider investigation into an illegal practice known as redlining.

Evans Bank violated fair housing and discrimination laws by intentionally denying services and products to Buffalo's east side, home to more than 75 percent of the city's African-American population, the federal lawsuit alleges.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140902/us--bank-redlining_lawsuit-f2f1aea0ec.html

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