In litigation, as in life, past is prelude. To understand why Citigroup and its lawyers at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison decided to settle the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s $3.5 billion mortgage-backed securities suit, you have to look back nine years to the shareholder class action stemming from securities and accounting fraud at WorldCom.
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