{"id":196020,"date":"2008-05-29T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/29\/bank-of-america-cans-countrywide-ceo\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:17:00","slug":"bank-of-america-cans-countrywide-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/29\/bank-of-america-cans-countrywide-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America Cans Countrywide CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something weird is going on.  Bank of America just <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2008\/05\/28\/bofa-dumps-countrywide-exec\/\">fired David Sambol, Countrywide&#8217;s president and chief operating officer<\/a> (technically, he&#8217;s retiring), when they had previously said that he would head their combined mortgage operation.<\/p>\n<p>My guess that someone uncovered some more &#8220;chocolaty goodness&#8221; at the center of Countrywide&#8230;only it wasn&#8217;t chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>It might also be some sort of attempt to queer the deal on BoA&#8217;s part, because they realize that it&#8217;s a really bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something weird is going on. Bank of America just fired David Sambol, Countrywide&#8217;s president and chief operating officer (technically, he&#8217;s retiring), when they had previously said that he would head their combined mortgage operation. My guess that someone uncovered some more &#8220;chocolaty goodness&#8221; at the center of Countrywide&#8230;only it wasn&#8217;t chocolate. It might also be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}