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| AP IMPACT: Dodd, Conrad told deals were sweetened |
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Jul 27 04:46 PM US/Eastern
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd
were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from
one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their
loans has told Congress in secret testimony.
Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being written they didn't know they were getting unique deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., the company that went on to lose billions of dollars on home loans to credit-strapped borrowers. Dodd still maintains he got no preferential treatment.
"You don't say 'no' to the VIP," Feinberg told Republican investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press.
Dodd got two Countrywide mortgages in 2003, refinancing his home in Connecticut and another residence in Washington. Conrad's two Countrywide mortgages in 2004 were for a beach house in Delaware and an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck in his home state of North Dakota.
Robert Feinberg,
who worked in the Countrywide's VIP section, told congressional
investigators last month that the two senators were made aware that
"who you know is basically how you're coming in here."
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