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“A lot of what happened had had nothing to do with looking after the best interest of shareholders and instead about looking after the best interest of senior executives,” Rossi said. Pressure from such firms pushed S&P to weaken its standards and to put off changes in ratings methods that could have made it tougher to receive top rankings, the Justice Department said.īecause Citigroup and Bank of America created some of the CDOs, Rossi said he “found it a little surprising they would try to come at it like these were some unfortunately aggrieved institutions.” Still, the history of why Firrea included tougher enforcement powers reflected the view at the time that thrift executives had often worked with other parties to put their own firms and, ultimately, taxpayers at risk, he said. Underwriters of CDOs typically signed off on the contents of the deals and the nature of disclosures regarding their risk.

bank, with assistance from the Federal Reserve. Bear Stearns collapsed in 2008 and was bought by JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest U.S. lender by assets, hired S&P to grade two of the three CDOs for which it’s named as a victim, including one overseen by Bear Stearns Cos.’s Ralph Cioffi, the manager of two hedge funds whose collapse in June 2007 signaled the end of the boom in mortgage-tied CDOs. Prince, who was forced out over New York-based Citigroup’s mortgage losses, didn’t return an e-mail last week.Ĭharlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
