Neither Bocca nor the Nielsen lawyer responded to HousingThe requests for comments. CCM said it does not comment on legal affairs.
On August 18, the parties reported the court that they had reached a settlement and judge Michael L. Brown in order to close the case. The judge noted that the parties should submit a dismissal, but if the settlement comes through, they can move to reopen the case.
The lawsuit, brought in the US District Court for the northern district of Georgia‘s Atlanta Division, followed a complaint that Nielsen filed in May 2022 to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a report of the right to the point in February 2023.
Nielsen joined the CCM branch in Alpharetta, Georgia in July 2018. Two and a half years later she started reporting to Bocca, with whom she had daily interactions. In her court case, she claimed that she was repeatedly subjected to sexually inappropriate comments and progress.
“The plaintiff began to note that the leadership style of Bocca was to intimidate, manipulate and be verbally abused, and he often has sexually harassed his female staff,” wrote Nielsen’s lawyer in the court case.
Nielsen also claimed that CCM took revenge after she had collected complaints with Human Resources during a call on 18 May 2022.
“On July 5, 2022, the plaintiff was informed that CCM had accepted her termination during the call on May 18 and that her last wage day would be on July 1, 2022,” says the court case. “CCM had no basis for dismissing the claimant, except for retribution of her complaint about sexual harassment.”
The lawsuit stated that the company never investigated the alleged behavior of Bocca, nor questioned other women in the branch. According to the lender’s website, Bocca remains a branch manager at CCM in Georgia.
CCM is the eighth largest mortgage provider in the country, with $ 23 billion in volume in the first half of 2025. According to inside mortgage financing. That figure represents an annual basis of 32.5%.
The company has recently been instructed to pay $ 2.1 million in a case for age discrimination in Ohio, and it is still confronted with another case with similar accusations in Pennsylvania.
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