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GOP: Probe Countrywide’s Sweetheart Mortgages

by Moe Bedard

House Republicans want the House Ethics Committee to investigate whether House members and aides received sweetheart deals on their home mortgages.

 
According to The Hill, Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Mark Souder, R-Ind., told the Committee in a letter that the “serious and broad allegation that members of Congress, congressional staff, and other officials were given [...]

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Where Are Congress’ Ethics Hearings into Countrywide’s VIP Loans?

by Moe Bedard

Sweetheart mortgages given by Countrywide Financial, the nation’s biggest mortgage lender, to elected officials and government bureaucrats seem tailor-made for an ethics inquiry by Congress, especially as the country is seeing a rising tide of voter anger in this presidential election year due to the massive $300 bn bailout of the housing industry at taxpayers’ [...]

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Obama and the Countrywide Scandal Updates

by Moe Bedard

USA Today:
Update at 4:50 p.m. ET: Doug Holtz-Eakin, a domestic policy adviser to McCain, had this to say on a conference call about Obama’s economic speech today in Raleigh: “It was remarkable that Senator Obama could talk about housing, talk about ethics, and fail to mention that he entrusted the single most important decision in [...]

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Angelo and the Countrywide Gang – Their Rules in Their World?

by Moe Bedard

Countrywide just can’t seem to get a PR break. Some of my readers think it is my personal vendetta to think, write, and live on this blog to make their life a living PR hell.
The funny part is that they don’t need any help in that area. They created their own rules, in their own world, and now [...]

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