"Quicken Loans is suing the federal government, claiming a three-year investigation into some of its past lending practices is really a strong-armed attempt to get a big settlement and admission of wrongdoing from the Detroit-based company.

Quicken filed its lawsuit late last week against the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"Quicken Loans appears to be one of the targets [[due to its large size) of a political agenda under which the DOJ is 'investigating' and pressuring large, high-profile lenders into paying nine- and 10-figure sums and publicly 'admitting' wrongdoing, including conceding that the lenders had made 'false claims,' " the lawsuit says.

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