MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

DENISE COTE, District Judge.

Defendants moved in limine on January 8, 2015 to exclude the trial testimony of plaintiff Federal Housing Finance Agency's ("FHFA") expert witness Robert W. Hunter ("Hunter") relating to inaccuracies in pre-closing loan tapes. Loan tapes are spreadsheets containing a "detailed listing of the mortgage loans [Nomura] intended to include in a particular securitization, and the specific credit characteristics of each of those loans." Such characteristics included borrowers' FICO scores1 and debt-to-income ("DTI") ratios,2 the loans' loan-tovalue ("LTV") ratios,3 and the owner-occupancy status of the loans. Defendants used the loan tapes to calculate the statistics displayed in various tables in the Prospectus Supplements reporting selected characteristics of the loans included in a supporting loan group for a Certificate ("Collateral Tables"). The loan tapes were also provided to credit rating agencies for purposes of evaluating the securities. The loan tapes are not, however, mentioned in any of the Supplements.

FHFA alleges in its Amended Complaint that the Supplements included misrepresentations about certain characteristics of the mortgage loans, including data concerning owner occupancy and LTV ratios, as well as misrepresentations about Originators' compliance with underwriting standards. FHFA alleges as well that credit rating agencies gave inflated ratings to the Certificates as a result of defendants' providing these agencies with incorrect data concerning the attributes of the loans.

FHFA retained Hunter to re-underwrite the samples of loans at issue in this litigation.4 See FHFA v. Nomura Holding Am., Inc., No. 11cv6201 (DLC), 2015 WL 394072 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 29, 2015) (owner-occupancy status); FHFA v. Nomura Holding Am., Inc., No. 11cv6201 (DLC), 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10458 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 29, 2015) ("minimum industry standards"); FHFA v. Nomura Holding Am., Inc., No. 11cv6201 (DLC), 2015 WL ____ (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 11, 2015) (post-origination evidence). Hunter also evaluated the accuracy of information on the loan tapes, observing that "[i]f the data contained on the pre-closing loan tape differed from the information contained in the loan origination files, the loan tape would not accurately reflect the true credit risk" of individual loans or the loan pools. He found errors on loan tapes for 343 out of 723 — approximately 48% — of the loans he re-underwrote.

Defendants allege that Hunter's testimony about loan tapes is irrelevant because loan tapes were not in existence at the time the loans were originated and because the "Offering Documents make no representations about the loan tapes or loanlevel information." The loan tapes, however, contain information relevant to the misrepresentations alleged by FHFA. Data taken from the loan tapes were used to calculate statistics in the Collateral Tables in the Prospectus Supplements. The data were also used by credit agencies in evaluating what rating would be assigned to the Certificates. The Prospectus Supplements represented that the Certificates at issue "will not be offered unless they receive ratings at least as high" as AAA or its equivalent.

CONCLUSION

Defendants' January 8 motion to exclude Hunter's testimony about pre-closing loan tape discrepancies is denied.

SO ORDERED.