Executives Behind Financial Crisis Face Little Risk Of Being Caught

Executives Behind Financial Crisis Face Little Risk Of Being Caught

So much for Angelo Mozilo taking the fall for the financial crisis.

Late last week, word leaked out that Mr. Mozilo, who had co-founded Countrywide Financial in 1969 -- and, for nearly 40 years, presided over its astonishing rise and its equally astonishing fall -- would not be prosecuted by the Justice Department. Not for insider trading. Not for failing to disclose to investors his private worries about subprime loans. Not for helping to create a culture at Countrywide in which mortgage originators were rewarded for pushing fraudulent loans on borrowers.

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