Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial CEO in 2008 crisis, dies
Angelo Mozilo led Countrywide Financial to be the largest U.S. mortgage lender during the housing boom, then saw it crash in the 2008 financial crisis.
Source: latimes.com
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Angelo Mozilo led Countrywide Financial to be the largest U.S. mortgage lender during the housing boom, then saw it crash in the 2008 financial crisis.
He built Countrywide Financial into the country’s largest mortgage lender, but its increasingly risky loans helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.
Time magazine, citing Countrywide’s loosened lending standards and exotic mortgages, named him one of the “25 People to Blame” for the housing crisis.
In 2008, Time magazine named Angelo Mozilo as one of the “25 People to Blame” for the global financial crisis.