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Angelo Mozilo |
Countrywide is one of a dozen companies the SEC is investigating in connection with the subprime fall-out, the Journal said. At least one area of inquiry involves sales by Mozilo, who sold at least $130.6 million in company stock in the first half of the year through executive sales plans, the Journal said.
A spokesperson for Countrywide said it does not comment on communications with regulators.
An SEC spokesman had no comment. But the agency has previously said it is looking "hard" at the general issue of whether executives are illegally trading on insider information and using a preset trading plan to avoid suspicion.
North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore has raised questions about the timing of Mozilo's stock sales as problems in the subprime mortgage crisis surfaced. Last week, Moore said he sent a letter to the SEC asking the agency to investigate Mozilo's use of stock options and the timing of changes made to his trading plans.
In an interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo in August, Mozilo said he was selling stock because he needed the money for family obligations.
"The reason I'm selling is that...I have a big family--nine grandchildren, five children," Mozilo said. "So I have a lot of obligations. But I am sort of at the end of my career, not at the beginning of my career. And I have to plan as to what the future's going to be. And since I own such an enormous number of shares, there's a point at which when do I do this? And so I try to do it in an orderly way."
Countrywide plans to cut 10,000 to 12,000 jobs, or up to 20 percent of its work force and said earlier this month it expected a $125 million to $150 million pretax restructuring charge from the move.
Shares of Countrywide [CFC
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