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Dodd … Stand By Your Friends

By Jim Vicevich / March 15, 2009 /

Chris Dodd is coming out but the answers still ring hollow. Connecticut’s senior senator tells Channel 3’s Dennis House: Hey, Countrywide’s Robert Feinberg’s lying … no sweetheart mortgage deal No I will not release my mortgage papers … everyone already saw em … for a day The Irish cottage thing … hey the appraisal said…

Welcome to Whoville Chris Dodd

By Jim Vicevich / October 19, 2008 /

Kevin Rennie wont let go … so neither will we. Let’s see if the Courant follows suit … although I doubt it. Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. “It is what it is,” declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant’s Rick Green that he had…

Dodd Under Fire For Allowing Bonuses-Video-Update: Dodd Responds

By Jim Vicevich / March 17, 2009 /

The NY Times is reporting (paragraph 16) that Chris Dodd included an exemption for bonuses like the ones given AIG in the February stimulus bill … I thought about adding this to Steve’s post on the Democrats going after Rob Simmons but this story is becoming bigger by the minute. The administration official said the Treasury…

Dodd still keeping his mouth shut

By Steve McGough / October 17, 2008 /

Did he think we would forget? Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) got a break on his two mortgages and people were pretty wound up about it. Since he’s the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee people have a right to be wound up. First he said that the details about his deal with Countrywide would be…

More Chris Dodd

By Jim Vicevich / December 15, 2008 /

Popularity down … investigation continues … press coverage … rising? People are starting to finally make the connection that Dodd’s failure is more than ethical. For the first time in his Senate career, Christopher J. Dodd, the senior Democratic senator from Connecticut, is politically vulnerable. In part, that’s because both the Senate Ethics Committee and…

Dodd Man Walking – Part 2 – Simmons responds

By Jim Vicevich / March 30, 2009 /

The troubles continue to mount for Chris Dodd and it’s not jut this amazing piece in today’s Washington Times either. As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections, a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives…

Now you see ’em … now you don’t – Update

By Jim Vicevich / February 4, 2009 /

When will Chris Dodd release his mortgage papers. Well he did … like a dog on a leash. Sit, Ubu sit. Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has finally, sort of, kind of, ended 193 days of stonewalling about his sweetheart loans from former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. At least he did if you were a fast…

Were Laws Broken?

By Jim Vicevich / March 25, 2009 /

The charges against Chris Dodd continue to pile up. It started with the sweetheart Countrywide Mortgages, then the “cottage” in Ireland, the association with a convicted felon, the AIG bonus “lie”, and finally word that his wife once collected a paycheck from an AIG company. No wonder Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) went wobbly last week…

The Countrywide Scandle Widens

By Jim Vicevich / November 17, 2008 /

From WTIC.COM The Postal Service is investigating whether the nation’s postmaster general improperly received a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial Corp., the chairman of the service’s governing board said. The answer of  course is … “Deal?  I didn’t know it was a deal.”  Seems to be working for Chris Dodd.

Waiting For Dodd

By Jim Vicevich / January 7, 2009 /

Still … the Wall Street Journal asks “Where are those papers?” … the Politico, on the other hand … looks for redemption. We are happy its still in the news. The rest of the press corps may have moved on, but we’d still like to know. All the more so because former Countrywide Financial loan…