The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Darrell Issa, sent a wide-ranging subpoena Wednesday to Bank of America for documents, e-mails and names related to Countrywide Financial’s VIP and Friends of Angelo Program.
Issa’s probe of the now-defunct lender’s controversial home loan program is an attempt to expose all lawmakers or other government officials who might have received sweetheart deals from the firm. The subpoena to Bank of America, which now owns Countrywide, marks a significant expansion of an investigation into Countrywide launched in the preceding Democrat-controlled Congress.
