Angelo Mozilo

Financial Crisis Financiers: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.29.2009 | Business


UPDATE: AIG's Joseph Cassano is BACK in U.S. soil. Check out info on his "surprisingly modest" home here. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well...

Financial Crisis: Why Are So Few Culprits Are In Jail?

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- More than a year into the gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression, millions of Americans have seen their home values and ret...

The Most Damning Internal Emails Of The Financial Crisis (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.14.2009 | Business


In case you haven't heard, emails live forever. Which may mean that the full story of the financial crisis is lying dormant somewhere on a few forgott...

Angelo Mozilo, Ex-Countrywide CEO: Was He To Blame?

latimes.com | E. Scott Reckard | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


When David Gautreaux volunteered to assist at a charity golf tournament in Thousand Oaks two years ago, he was eager to meet the event's host, Angelo ...

Darrell Issa, Another Lying Liar in the Countrywide VIP Loan Story

David Fiderer | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


David Fiderer

Robert Feinberg is the "whistleblower" who accuses Chris Dodd of receiving "sweetheart deals" on his home mortgage. His statements and stolen company documents represent the only direct evident in Rep. Issa's misleading report.

At PennyMac, Former Countrywide Execs Want To Profit From Housing Bust

bloomberg.com | Elizabeth Stanton | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business


July 29 (Bloomberg) -- PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, which plans to raise $400 million in a stock offering today, is betting that the people who...

Prosecutors Pass On Major Wall Street Players

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


Ever heard of Sky Capital? Probably not. The CEO of that rinky-dink Wall Street firm and five of his employees were indicted this week over what the S...

Biggest Villains Of The Financial Crisis (POLL)

Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


As we all know by now, the financial crisis was caused by a series of systematic failures -- botched regulations, corporations that grew to be too big...

Why Mozilo Was Charged With Insider Trading

Michael Martin | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


Michael Martin

The SEC has charged Angelo Mozilo with civil fraud and insider trading. Civil fraud charges also were filed against Countrywide's former chief operat...

Angelo Mozilo Fraud Charges: SEC Charges Former Countrywide CEO

AP | MARCY GORDON and GREG RISLING | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of fallen mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Co...

SEC Recommends Fraud Charges Against Countrywide's Mozilo

Business Insider | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business


The man who was once lauded as the greatest friend to the homeowner for happily extending credit to anyone with a pulse is looking at possible civil f...

Possible Jail For Financial Execs

Portfolio | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business


We asked a group of eight former prosecutors and other legal experts (some of whom asked to remain anonymous) about which of the meltdown's disgraced ...

Time Rewrote History With "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis"

David Fiderer | Posted 05.19.2009 | Business


David Fiderer

Instead of pinpointing culpability among the key players, Time deflects blame away from Republicans and falsely implicates Democrats, to create a muddleheaded "plenty-of-blame-to-go-around" narrative.

Vilified: What You Don't Know About My Brother, Angelo Mozilo

Lori Mozilo | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


Lori Mozilo

When the mortgage crisis broke, there was as flurry of innuendos and allegations about Angelo and Countrywide. However, reporters are merely recycling misinformation they've gotten from each other.

Piling on Angelo Mozilo???

Jim Randel | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business


Jim Randel

I worry when we as a society turn over-zealous in looking to personalize and find villains for problems (the housing bust and credit crunch) for which we all have responsibility.

Countrywide CEO Mozilo Calls Borrower's Plea For Help "Disgusting"

LA Times | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business


Apparently clicking "reply" when he meant to hit "forward," Countrywide Financial Corp. Chairman Angelo Mozilo ignited an online furor Tuesday by desc...

Countrywide CEO Earned $132 Million In 2007

AP | Posted 05.03.2008 | Business


CALABASAS, Calif. — A securities filing shows Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo earned about $10.8 million in total compensation and...

Bear Stearns CEO Blames Media For Company's Collapse

Muckraked! | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business


From Muckraked! When it comes to assigning blame for his firm's collapse, Alan Schwartz, the president and CEO of Bear Stearns, borrows a page from C...

Countrywide Reportedly Under FBI Investigation

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The FBI has launched an investigation into the lending practices of battered home lender Countrywide Financial Corp., according to a report in The Wal...

CEOs Defend Their High Pay on Hill

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Three corporate executives called in for a shaming by Democratic lawmakers Friday defended raking in hundreds of millions of dollar...

Countrywide CEO Shamed Into Forefeiting $37.5 Million Severance Pay

Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Corp., is giving up $37.5 million of severance pay, fees and benefits in ...

Ten Smartest CEO Moves Of 2007

Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...

Three CEOs Who Should Go

Motley Fool | Morgan Housel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


CEOs don't have the easiest jobs in the world. Being responsible for leading an organization with needy employees, unreasonable suppliers, and impatie...