Ex-American Home CEO settles with SEC for $2.45M

Published April 27, 2009 4:00am ET



The former head of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $2.5 million to settle federal civil charges of accounting fraud and concealing the company’s deteriorating finances as the subprime mortgage crisis hit in 2007.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement Tuesday with former American Home Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Strauss, the company’s founder.

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