Daniel Mudd

SEC After Freddie, Fannie Mae Executives

The Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb and David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Fhfa, Sec, Subprime Mortgages, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Anthony ?€œBuddy? Piszel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Daniel Mudd, Donald Bisenius, Fannie Mae, Richard Syron, Financial Market, Freddie Mae, Business News

The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving toward charging former and current Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives with violations related to t...

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SEC Considers Action Against Ex-Freddie Mac Chief Executive

The New York Times | BEN PROTESS and AZAM AHMED | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae, Richard Syron, Sec, Foreclosure Crisis, Freddie Mac, Securities and Exchange Commission, Chief Executive, Housing Crisis, Business News

The former chief executive of Freddie Mac may face a civil action as the government ramps up an investigation of disclosure practices at the mortgage ...

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Fannie's Scandalized, Freddie's Dead -- and the Next Financial Meltdown May Have Already Started

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Rubin, Yves Smith, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Deregulation, Privatization, Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae, Alan Greenspan, Fannie and Freddie, Freddie Mac, Center for American Progress, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Here's an idea: Let's give hundreds of billions of dollars in government-backed guarantees to private banks so they make a fortune writing mortgages without any risk to themselves. Hey, what could go wrong?

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Wall Street Quietly Creates New Profit From Homeowner Distress

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeowner Crisis, Wall Street, Daniel Mudd, Bank of America, Fortress Investment Group, Homeowners, Bofa, Tax Debt, Business News

Story by The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, originally posted at The Center For Public Integrity. When Florida retiree Gladys Walker fell behi...

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Countrywide VIP Gave Fannie Mae "Sweetheart Deals"

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Countrywide VIP Program, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Countrywide Financial, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, VIP Mortgages, Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Jamie Gorelick, Mortgage Discounts, Housing Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — The former Countrywide Financial Corp. gave preferential loans to more than three dozen employees of Fannie Mae while the two giant...

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

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Countrywide Finanical, Bear Sterns, Daniel Mudd, Fannie Mae, Internal Emails, Angelo Mozilo, S&P, Matthew Tannin, Brendan Ciofi, Ubs, Business News

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...

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The 10 Worst Calls Of The Financial Crisis (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Joseph Cassano, Worst Predictions of the Financial Crisis, George W. Bush, Financial Crisis, Hank Paulson, Chris Dodd, Daniel Mudd, Barney Frank, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Oh, how wrong they were. If there's one overarching truth of the financial crisis, it's that the world's most powerful business leaders, investors and...

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Freddie-Fannie Payoffs

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniel Mudd, Severance Pay, Henry Paulson, Richard Syron, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Political Cartoons, Business News
Jeff Danziger

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