HSBC must defend in fraud lawsuit

The case involved David Schick, a Brooklyn, New York, real estate lawyer who in the early 1990s convinced investors that he had devised a "no-risk" scheme to generate high returns by bidding on and subsequently selling pools of mortgages.
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