Sentence examples for improperly rated from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation's largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed on such interviews.

Mortgage Ratings | The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into whether Standard & Poor's improperly rated a large swath of mortgage bonds in the years before the financial crisis, The New York Times reports.

At the same time, the agency is being investigated over whether it improperly rated mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

And the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into claims that Standard & Poor's improperly rated mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

The aim of this study was 1) to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews or meta-analyses related to nursing interventions published by Korean authors, and 2) to identify methodological quality domain rated as improperly performed.

In response to questions for the Times article in April, a Goldman Sachs spokesman, Samuel Robinson, said: "Any suggestion that Goldman Sachs improperly influenced rating agencies is without foundation.

Faced with continued criticism of its fuel surcharges and a lawsuit that contends they were improperly disguised rate increases, the Long Island Power Authority announced on Wednesday that it had asked the State Public Service Commission to review its surcharge practices.

The state's highest court ruled in October that rents on 4,400 of the complex's units had been improperly raised to market rates.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into whether the credit-rating agencies improperly inflated their ratings of mortgage-backed securities because of possible conflicts of interest, the head of the commission told Congress on Wednesday.

[A27.] INQUIRY INTO RATING AGENCIES The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into whether the credit-rating agencies improperly inflated their ratings of mortgage-backed securities because of possible conflicts of interest.

Regulators have questioned whether the banks attempted to improperly set the rate at a level that was favorable to their own institutions.