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The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 Seth Jayson	Quick Take: Bad Behavior at Countrywide Is it any wonder that Countrywide needed to hit up Bank of America for emergency funding last week? Does anyone out there really think that Mozilo believes in the long-term health of this company?
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Rich Duprey	Countrywide Still Rots From the Head Another executive at the troubled mortgage company manages to land safely on his feet.
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The Motley Fool November 2, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Deutsche Dodge Deutsche Bank posts third-quarter results decidedly better than those of many of its competitors, balancing corporate and investment-banking segment losses with good showings in other units.
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The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer	Mortgage-Mess Criminals Finally Going to Jail In the wake of the devastating financial and housing crisis, many Americans have been outraged that more of the folks responsible haven't gone to jail. That may well be changing.
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The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Rich Duprey	Countrywide's School of Higher Earning The mortgage lender's CEO stands to make a mint in severance if the Bank of America deal goes through.
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