"This resolution holds Deutsche Bank accountable for its illegal conduct and irresponsible lending practices, which caused serious and lasting damage to investors and the American public," US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in the release.
The US government claimed that Deutsche Bank misled investors in the packaging, securitization, marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2006 and 2007.
"This misconduct, combined with that of the other banks we have already settled with, hurt our economy and threatened the banking system," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in the release.
US communities and homeowners continued to struggle because of Wall Street’s greed, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Bill Baer also said in the release.
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