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The Senate Subcommittee Investigation and Findings
Washington Mutual Bank was the largest bank failure in history. AC ¶ 10. In April, 2010, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Investigations initiated an investigation into “some of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis,” focusing squarely on WaMu’s origination and securitization of mortgage loans “as a case study in the role of high risk loans in the U.S. financial crisis.” Shulman Dec. Ex. A (Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Hearing before the Permanent Subcomm. On Investigations, April 13, 2010, Hearing Ex. 1a); AC ¶ 65. The Senate Subcommittee found that “WaMu selected and securitized loans that it had identified as likely to go delinquent,, without disclosing its analysis to investors who bought the securities,” and that WaMu “securitized loans tainted by fraudulent information, without notifying purchasers of the fraud that was discovered.”