A federal judge presiding over predatory lending claims against an international London-based bank has recused in response to a Washington Post story that explored the collapse of housing values in neighborhoods adjacent to her own.
The May 2 story highlighted predominantly African-American neighborhoods in south DeKalb County, where property values plummeted during the Great Recession and have been far slower to recover than comparable white neighborhoods, often because of targeted predatory lending practices that led to a slew of foreclosures and abandoned developments.
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