REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON AND ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — As Countrywide Financial Corp. sought to improve the terms of its loan sales to the Federal National Mortgage Corp., it gave some employees and executives of the firm below-market interest rates on their mortgages, according to a report from Congress. Employees of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. were also given preferential pricing treatment.
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