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.

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.

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.

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 alleged human rights abuses by the Uganda People's Defense Force, which it denied.

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.

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.

See also

Inner City Press
Fair Finance Watch

References

External links
 "A Citizen of the World, At Home in The Bronx," Washington Post, April 17, 2006
 "HSBC 'overcharging' US troops," The Observer (UK), December 18, 2005
 "Wading through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Muck," US Banker, November 2005
 Review of Predatory Bender
Another review of Predatory Bender
Video discussions/debates involving Matthew Lee on BloggingHeads.tv
The Beat by Eric Konigsberg (Sept. 26, 2011), The New Yorker
What is Inner City Press? by Tom McGregor (Oct. 17, 2011), UN Post
Trouble in the UN Press Core (June 28, 2012) by Richard Armstrong 'World Policy Review'

American lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers