Muni-Price Fixing Suit Inches Closer to Settlement With Wall Street

Judge Jesse M. Furman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the request for class certification from two cities and one transportation commission suing eight banks — including Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs — for conspiring to fix the rates on variable rate demand obligation bonds.

“This is an additional milestone that will push this case to settle eventually,” Stein said in an email after the court denied the banks’ motions to bar plaintiffs’ experts, and granted plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, as expected. The first of the class action lawsuits was filed by the city of Philadelphia in February of 2019, followed by the city of Baltimore in March of that year, and later by the San Diego Regional Transportation Commission. The lawsuits have since been consolidated.

In July, the state of Illinois settled its lawsuit for $68 million, saying the case filed on its behalf “almost certainly” would have resulted in a loss, according to a filing by Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

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