Countrywide Financial News

A Long Island A ring scammed banks out of $100 million through a complex series of bogus property sales, Manhattan prosecutors charged Wednesday.

As part of the agreement, Countrywide will make $161,805 available to eligible South Dakota borrowers.

Posted Jul 1st 2009 2:20PM by Zac Bissonnette Filed under: Bank of America In case you needed another reason to hate Countrywide Financial , here's a good one: Former executive managing director Andrew "Drew" Gissinger III has started a new firm in San Diego, the boom gone bust city where he once played in the National Football League.

With a trail of damaging e-mails and big-money stock sales, the federal government's fraud case against Angelo Mozilo and two other former Countrywide Financial Corp.

One contributing factor in the financial meltdown has been a patchwork regulatory system with wide gaps exploited by companies like AIG , Countrywide Financial, and many of Wall Street's biggest firms.

Bank of America completes Countrywide Financial purchase Bank of America Corporation will today complete its purchase of Countrywide Financial Corp.

Virginia families facing foreclosure will now be eligible for debt counseling. It's being paid for, in part, by a legal settlement with Countrywide Financial.

Virginia families facing home foreclosure will be eligible for debt counseling funded in part by a legal settlement with Countrywide Financial Corp.

BuckleySandler , founded in March when two Skadden partners left the firm's Washington DC office, has grown to 55 lawyers with the addition of two lawyers.

Lawmakers on a congressional oversight panel are struggling with whether to ramp up a probe into a controversial home-loan program at Countrywide Financial Corp.

In the June 29, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Connie Bruck slashes and burns her way behind-the-scenes at Countrywide Financial.

The Boom-Time Bums These operators capitalized on regulatory gaps and used financial gimmicks to engineer quick profits and inflate share prices.

Sen. Chris Dodd, the dubious Democrat from the Nutmeg State, told a recent interviewer that it was "offensive" that the media would suggest that his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, has potential conflicts of interest because she sits on the boards of four pharmaceutical firms.

Columbia Heights man, facing foreclosure, helps the attorney general in a suit against mortgage company.

'When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions," declares Hamlet's King Claudius as troubles mount in Denmark.

The near-collapse of the financial system was supposed to have reminded the world about the hazards of chasing short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability.

Your browser's security settings are preventing some features from appearing. See instructions for fixing the problem.

Bank of America has a Wednesday deadline to disclose any special mortgage terms the bank's Countrywide Financial unit gave to politically influential customers over an eight-year period, a senior Republican said on Tuesday.

Documents associated with U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd 's much discussed "VIP" loans with defunct mortgage giant Countrywide Financial could become generally available - if a ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives has his way.

The chief risk officer of Countrywide Financial Corp, the poster-child company for the loose U.S. home loans that staggered the world economy, was warning against them even when it put him at odds with his own company -- and with Fed chairman Ben Bernanke.