Ethics Group Urges Inquiry of Mortgage Banking Lobbyist Who Led F.H.A.
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David H. Stevens, the current chief of the Mortgage Bankers Association, used to oversee the Federal Housing Administration. CreditAndrew Harrer/Bloomberg
A nonprofit watchdog group on Monday called for an investigation of David H. Stevens, chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association, arguing that he may have violated ethics laws relating to his previous position as commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration.
The National Legal and Policy Center, a right-leaning ethics-in-government group, urged the United States attorney for the District of Columbia and the inspector general at the Housing and Urban Development Department to conduct an official review of Mr. Stevens’s activities while he was at HUD and after he left the agency in March 2011 to lead the mortgage association, one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington…
Ethics Group Urges Inquiry of Mortgage Banking Lobbyist Who Led F.H.A.
