"Never send a monkey to do a man's job."
~ Captain Leo Davidson
Posted on 11/02/2008 2:06:44 PM PST by Libloather
Dodd says his mortgages were standard
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., says he did not receive special treatment from Countrywide Financial in obtaining nearly $780,000 in mortgages in 2003.
These transactions were standard transactions at standard rates, Dodd said Wednesday, adding he could say little about the two mortgages on his home because of an ongoing bipartisan Senate ethics inquiry.
Dodd said he would at the appropriate time publicly release documents related to the mortgages he received when he was a senior Democrat on the Senate banking committee of which he now is chairman, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Thursday.
In June, Portfolio magazine reported Countrywide allegedly waived some mortgage fees and costs for Dodd, a possible violation of Senate rules on gifts, the Courant reported.
What's wrong with NOW?
One of the Countrywide Six..
half of a Teddy and a waitress sandwich
By “standard” he means “business as usual.”
DOJ investigation? Good, hang the rat
DOJ investigation is nothing but a code word for Clinton Appointed Lawyers will do nothing...
I want to see him dragged away in handcuffs
He’s pretty confident by lying BEFORE an Obama win, isn’t he? The loans will no doubt be standard then. These people are disgusting.
Indict the fat bastard.
Are they going to investigate Barney too?
Does that include proof of repayment
"Never send a monkey to do a man's job."
~ Captain Leo Davidson
The DOJ will spend the next 6 months “investigating” this and come back with the same dim line as always:
There’s nothing here folks, move along.
You know, if Jeffrey Dahmer had been a card carrying dim, the DOJ would have cleared him too.
But I’m not saying that Dahmer is in the same league as Dodd. No, Dahmer just ate his sex partners, while Dodd devours whole institutions and sh#ts on the public.
lol
In 2007, while General Counsel of Fannie Mae, Beth Wilkinson contributed the max to SENATOR “Sweetheart of a Deal” CHRIS DODD.
How cute.
from here:
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Wilkinson&fname=Beth
Beth Wilkinson
Attorney
Fannie Mae Updated
Q2/2007
Christopher Dodd
$2,300 4540 DEXTER ST
Washington DC
Obviously not the "appropriate time"! Can't do anything to harm the Democrat Party, don't ya know.
REFERENCE Since June, Sen Dodd has faced an ethics inquiry over allegations that he received preferential treatment on two mortgages in 2003 from major lender, Countrywide Financial. And then came the dramatic financial meltdown last month, placing Dodd at the center of a controversial $700 billion financial rescue plan.
As a member and later chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. shoulders a good deal of the blame for the collapse of the national housing market, the subprime-mortgage-market meltdown and the convulsions on Wall Street.
Reams of legislation Dodd has written or advocated affecting the housing, lending, insurance and securities industries have drained hundreds of billions out of the economy, ballooned the federal debt, cost tens of thousands of people their jobs and driven hundreds of thousands of homeowners into foreclosure, bankruptcy or both.
For his efforts, Sen. Dodd has been rewarded in the 2008 election cycle alone with $7.65 million in campaign contributions (he took in $11.7 million in all) from the securities, insurance, real-estate and commercial-banking industries. With $165,400, Sen. Dodd also tops the list of members of Congress who took campaign cash from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 1989. Sen. Barack Obama, the self-styled agent of change, is a distant second at $126,000....
SEN DODD'S CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS
Citigroup, $310,294;
SAC Capital Partners, $282,000;
United Technologies, $263,400;
AIG, $224,678;
Bear Stearns, $205,600;
St. Paul Travelers, $205,400;
Royal Bank of Scotland, $203,750;
Goldman Sachs, $175,600;
Morgan Stanley, $155,000;
Credit Suisse, $154,550;
Merrill Lynch, $134,950;
The Hartford, $94,350;
Bank of America, $91,300;
JPMorgan Chase, $129,150;
USB, $101,900;
Hartford Finance Services, $101,500
Lehman Brothers, $128,400;
KPMG, $113,100;
General Electric, $108,250;
Deloitte Touche, $108,000
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