Williams & Connolly was rebuffed in its bid for more information about how consultants landed lucrative contracts from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to review bank foreclosures.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton of the District of Columbia denied the firm’s Freedom of Information Act Request, ruling on April 30 that the agency could keep the information confidential because doing so “encourages banks to be candid and transparent with the comptroller.”