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A Citigroup Inc. (C) unit was sued by an Iraq War veteran who claims the lender illegally foreclosed on his home while he was on active military duty.
Jorge Rodriguez, a U.S. Army sergeant, claimed in a complaint filed today in federal court in Manhattan that he was in training in preparation for deployment to Iraq in 2006 when CitiMortgage filed a foreclosure suit against his home in Del Valle, Texas.
CitiMortgage lawyers falsely said in an affidavit that Rodriguez wasn’t on active service at the time, depriving him of protection under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, or SCRA, according to the complaint. Rodriguez is seeking to have the suit certified as a class action against CitiMortgage on behalf of other service members whose homes were foreclosed.
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