Lawsuit Claimed Sterling Ignored Warnings From Its Employees ; in Settlement, Investors Get $10.25 Million; Financial Company Called Witnesses, Its Former Workers, Unreliable.

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Lawsuit Claimed Sterling Ignored Warnings From Its Employees ; in Settlement, Investors Get $10.25 Million; Financial Company Called Witnesses, Its Former Workers, Unreliable.

When Sterling Financial announced in May 2007 that a "sophisticated loan scheme" had cost it tens of millions of dollars, the bank provided only meager details.

Nine months later, Sterling said an internal investigation had concluded that its Equipment Finance subsidiary had reported inflated earnings from loans to southern logging companies.

It claimed that two Equipment Finance executives - Joseph Braas and ...

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