Is Judgment Day coming for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo?
Former Countrywide executive Angelo Mozilo, the man who almost singlehandedly built the subprime lending industry and made himself a mega-millionaire as it collapsed, wreaking havoc on world markets, will now spend many of those millions defending himself from federal regulators, who have charged him with civil fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission also accuses Mozilo in its civil lawsuit of engaging in insider trading for dumping his Countrywide stock for nearly $140 million in profits when it was clear the lending firm’s risk lending practices were going to tear the company apart at the seams.
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