The Justice Department opened an investigation in late 2015 regarding WMC, which was a GE Capital subsidiary, and its alleged violation of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act. "This just opens up a new door to what the Department of Justice may be looking at, in totality, and the degree of fine GE may be looking at beyond the $1.5 billion they set aside," Inch said. Miller said in April that GE Capital "has sufficient liquidity to manage the WMC FIRREA settlement."