April 30, 2008

Countrywide Fast & Easy

Filed under: Mortgage

A federal probe of Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, is turning up evidence that sales executives at the company deliberately overlooked inflated income figures for many borrowers, people with knowledge of the investigation say.

Some of the problems are surfacing in a mortgage program called “Fast and Easy,” in which borrowers were asked to provide little or no documentation of their finances, according to these people and to former Countrywide employees.

Source – Wall Street Journal

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