<p>Although it seems that Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party are as different as night and day, there may be one important thing that they have in common: anger about the dysfunction and cronyism crippling the U.S. government and economy.</p>
<p>This two-part video by 60 Minutes carefully details how both Countrywide Financial and Citigroup partook in reckless and oftentimes illegal behavior that helped bring about the housing market collapse–with zero repercussions.</p>
<p>Eileen Foster, a former executive vice president in charge of fraud investigations at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, told <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390540n&amp;tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #d50b0b;">CBS <em>60 Minutes</em> reporter Steve Kroft</span></span></a> that mortgage fraud was a common occurrence at the firm.</p>
<p>She claims that she faced illegal retaliation for filing reports investigating the fraud, alleging Countrywide fired her when she refused to lie to federal regulators on Countrywide’s behalf, reports the Huffington Post.</p>
<p>“From what I saw, the types of things I saw, it was, it appeared systemic,” <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390540n&amp;tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #d50b0b;">Foster said on <em>60 Minutes</em> Sunday</span></span></a>. “It wasn’t just one individual or two or three individuals, it was branches of individuals, it was regions of individuals.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-how-countrywide-crashed-the-housing-market-and-got-away-with-it/">Continued on The Blaze &gt;&gt;</a></p>