Topic: Countrywide Financial Corporation

GOP lawmaker: Senate staff members, not just legislators, received VIP loans from CountrywideA Republican lawmaker says documents show more senators and staff members than previously known received sweetheart mortgages from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., based on their perceived ability to help ...
Ethics panel clears Dodd, Conrad of breaking Senate rules with VIP mortgages from CountrywideThe Senate ethics panel cleared Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad Friday of breaking rules by getting mortgages through a VIP program, but it scolded them for not being ...

House Democrat received Countrywide loans: report

(Reuters) - A leading Democrat in the House of Representatives who has rebuffed Republican efforts to subpoena records of a mortgage program for favored borrowers at Countrywide Financial Corp got home loans from that lender, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Representative ...

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Shares of Countrywide Financial (CFC) about 4% Thursday after the number-one U.S. mortgage lender said mortgage applications fell 32% in November. COO David Sambol had praise for the Bush administration's Hope Now initiative, aimed at saving homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages from foreclosure. ...
A lot of ink was spilled last week concerning Countrywide Financial Corp. (CFC), and its seemingly magnanimous offer to refinance sub-prime loans as long as the borrowers have a reasonable record of repayment. Essentially CFC announced a "recycled" program that it billed ...