Federal authorities have charged a Quicken Loans employee with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, The Detroit News reports.
The charges filed Tuesday comes five days after the Justice Department accused the company in a civil lawsuit of violating mortgage underwriting rules and ignoring "red flags" on dicey home loans, The News writes. The charges are not linked to the lawsuit.
Robert Snell and David Shepardson report:
Contract worker Cynthia Slay is accused of using her job to gain access to names, Social Security numbers and bank account information from loan applicants so she could access their bank accounts. Slay then gave the information to an unnamed person, who drained their bank accounts of more than $22,000, according to court records.
