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Spitzer Slams Bush for Abetting Bad Lenders

Says feds barred states from halting predators

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 14, 2008 12:12 PM CST

(Newser) – The Bush administration was a “willing accomplice” to predatory lending practices that cost thousands of Americans their homes and endangered our economy, Eliot Spitzer writes in the Washington Post. When state attorneys general (including Spitzer at the time) tried to act against a spike... Read full story »

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Says feds barred states from halting predators

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