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Company: Evans Bank
Penalty: $825,000
Year: 2015
Date: September 10, 2015
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: discriminatory practices (non-employment)
Violation Description: The New York Attorney General announced asettlementrequiring Evans Bank, N.A. and Evans Bancorp, Inc. to end unlawful discriminatory mortgage practices known as redlining. The practices denied access to mortgage loans to borrowers in predominantly African-American neighborhoods in the city of Buffalo because of the racial composition of those communities.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New York Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
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