Moody's defeats lawsuit by ratings whistleblower
February 04, 2016 at 13:25 PM EST
NEW YORK, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Thursday won the dismissal of a former managing director's whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the U.S. government by failing to downgrade hundreds of thousands of credit ratings quickly enough, fueling the 2008 financial crisis.