Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. caused $2.4 billion in damages to investors holding securities backed by shaky home mortgages, a New York bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday, ending one of the last remaining disputes in the defunct bank’s nearly decade-long liquidation, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman’s decision marks a loss for investors, mostly hedge funds, which said their claims were worth $11.4 billion, and a win for Lehman’s bankruptcy administrators, who had proposed the $2.4 billion figure. She fixed the investors’ claim after a 22-day trial surrounding 72,500 home loans from before the 2008 financial crisis that bond trustees said were rife with misstatements about the borrowers’ income, their debts and their places of residence.
