Who is behind Countrywide Financial?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
Sourced links that no one presents as their own account, as recorded so far. Others may exist.
Led by
- Angelo Mozilo CEO of Primary record 1
Owners
- Bank of America acquired Jan 2008 Primary record 2
Proof 2 sources
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SEC Charges Former Countrywide Executives With Fraud (2009-129), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Internet Archive copy: sec.gov refuses curl), 4 Jun 2009.
Primary record
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo and two other former executives with securities fraud for deliberately misleading investors about the significant credit risks being taken in efforts to build and maintain the company's market share.
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (final report incl. dissenting statements), Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Primary record
In January 2008, Bank of America announced it would acquire the ailing lender Countrywide.
How this answer is built
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When a list is longer than the page shows, the links the public methodology ranks strongest stay (methodology 0.3), and the rest open in the explorer.
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