On Friday, the House of Representatives' watchdog committee corralled former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince, former Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal and Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo to find out whether executives should be compensated handsomely when their companies fare poorly.
Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, as well as a few other influential Washingtonians, were listed by Countrywide employees as FOAs, or "Friends of Angelo, " a reference to Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide's CEO.