The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a lawsuit that a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ignored red flags that borrowers couldn't afford the mortgages they were given to buy manufactured homes from another Berkshire company.

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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued a lender owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Monday, accusing it of pushing borrowers into unaffordable mortgages to buy homes from Clayton Homes,

Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance Inc. is accused of knowingly issuing “unaffordable” home mortgages.

The CFPB says that Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, ignored evidence that borrowers couldn't afford loans to buy manufactured homes.

A Berkshire Hathaway unit that is a major lender to people buying mobile homes intentionally failed to qualify borrowers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in a complaint. As a result,