Posted on 06/13/2008 2:13:01 PM PDT by Tulane
WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd reportedly received two mortgages under a special Countrywide Financial Corp. program that gave preferential interest rates to "friends" of the company's chairman.
A spokesman for Dodd, D-Conn., said Friday that the senator did not seek any special treatment.
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Amazing how quick supposed “Conservatives” are to leap to the defense of Leftist scumbags.
IF anyone else in Govt had done this they would be fired. Just because the clown is in the Senate does not exempt him from ethics rules. If not criminal, it sure as hell is unethical for someone in a regulatory position (i.e. chairman of the Senate Banking Comission) to accept any sort of special treatment from a business he directly is involved in regulating (Countrywide). This is just a clever form of bribery. Anyone who cannot see that is simply lying to themselves.
I’m not defending senator Dodd-I loathe the man—I’m just pointing out that you are getting all worked up over an inconsequential event. You are prpjecting your desire for revenge against Dodd on this event, but nothing will come of it.
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