Posted on 12/28/2012 12:42:26 PM PST by ColdOne
The House Ethics Committee has decided to close its investigation into preferential mortgages doled out under a controversial VIP program without taking any action.
The panel said it was not taking any action on members who received more affordable mortgages under the program, instituted by the now-defunct Countrywide Financial because while allegations surrounding the program and lawmakers involved "serious matters," they largely fell outside its jurisdiction.
For example, many of the allegations pertain to actions outside the Ethics Committee's statute of limitations — greater than three Congresses ago — and many of those accused are no longer working in Congress either as members or staffers.
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House Ethics - Oxymoron.................
I’m well aware of that.
Obama is definitely a symbol of what is going on in 2013.
government honesty???????????????????
Now there is an Oxymoron and a joke and a laugh.
As Will Rogers said many many years ago, “We have the best government money can buy.”
He said that at least 85 years ago and nothing has changed.
Well, it has gotten worse.
Soap box has failed
Jury box has failed
Ballot box has failed
Not much is left.
So true...houses for everyone, all across the fruited plains, compliments of you and I.
Agree, FRiend.
yes- but the chairman of the committee is a Republican...just another example of the GOP fighting like little girls...
In mid 1998 I had to jump through flaming hoops to qualify for a construction/permanent (CP) loan from Countrywide for the house I wanted to build. Shortly thereafter in 1998 the qualifications suddenly loosened up and my loan was promptly approved. The day after the house was built and the deal closed in mid 1999, Countrywide sold my mortgage to Fanny Mae. Based on my experience, mid 1998 is when Countrywide opened the floodgates and began dumping all their loans on Fanny Mae. This whole fuster cluck commenced then.
“First kill all the lawyers...”...Shakespere
Who said the 4-corner offense is dead ?
Other than most Conservatives, the Republican Party is merely an auxiliary of the Democrat Party.
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