[kcvl]

Both senators were VIP borrowers in the program known as "friends" of Angelo. Angelo Mozilo was chief executive of Countrywide, which played a big part in the foreclosure crisis triggered by defaults on subprime loans. The Calabasas, Calif.-based company was bought last July by Bank of America Corp. for about $2.5 billion.

Mozilo has been charged with civil fraud and illegal insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He denies any wrongdoing.

Asked by a House investigator if Conrad, the North Dakota senator, "was aware that he was getting preferential treatment?" Feinberg answered: "Yes, he was aware."

[Eva]

What I was trying to say was that people get preferential treatment all the time, but what makes this different is that this guy was given preferential treatment because he was a Senator.

These Senators and Congressmen didn’t even realize that they were doing anything wrong because pay to play is how Progressive fascism works. It’s an intrinsic part of Progressivism.