Matthew Lee (lawyer)

Matthew Lee is an American public interest lawyer, author, and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch.

For the American sociologist, see Matthew Lee (sociologist). For people with a similar name, see Matt Lee (disambiguation).
Matthew Lee
Born
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materFordham Law School
Occupations
Notable credit(s)Founded Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch;[1] author of Predatory Bender[2]

Both are known for their investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color around the world. Lee produces weekly reports on, and advocates concerning, such global banks as HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mizuho, and others. In 2005-2006, Lee was engaged in litigation to deem the "citizens-only" provision of the Freedom of Information Act of Delaware (and ten other states) to be unconstitutional.[3]

Lee and Fair Finance Watch in October 2013 raised fair lending concerns regarding Mercantile Bank and its proposed acquiring of FirstBank. On November 26, 2013, Michigan Live reported on the challenge and Mercantile telling the Security & Exchange Commission the issues Lee and FFW raised would result in a delay of the merger.[4]

Lee is the author of the non-fiction book Predatory Lending: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City and the novel Predatory Bender. Lee is also an accredited journalist at the United Nations.

In mid-2006, Lee's investigative journalism at the UN, published online in Inner City Press[5] alleged human rights abuses by the Uganda People's Defense Force, which it denied.[6]

Inner City Press' questioning of the UN on when it asked the Syrian government for access to al Ghouta was played on Democracy Now on August 28, from Minute 18:30.[7]

Personal life

Lee was born in Washington, D.C., to parents of Chinese and Anglo descent. His father was in the U.S. Foreign Service. After finishing middle school overseas, Lee attended high school in the US.[8]

See also

References
  1. "INNER CITY PRESS COMMUNITY ON THE MOVE INC". GuideStar.
  2. Lord, Rich (December 11, 2003). "Review of Predatory Bender: A Story of Subprime Finance by Matthew Lee". Pittsburgh City Paper.
  3. Farrell, Rita K. (May 12, 2006). "Court to Rule on Delaware Public Records Law". The New York Times. p. C10. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  4. "Mercantile Bank says merger with Firstbank will be delayed by federal probe over minority lending" http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2013/11/mercantile_bank_says_merger_wi.html
  5. In Uganda, UNDP's Belated Announcement of Program Halt Leaves Questions Unanswered - Inner City Press, 6/28/06
  6. UNDP suspends Karamoja projects Archived 2007-02-14 at the Wayback Machine - The New Vision, 6/28/06
  7. http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/dn2013-0828-1.mp3
  8. "Matthew Lee - Ashoka - USA". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
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