http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Prosecutors-Ask-if-8-Banks-nytimes-782041221.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=
The investigation angle should be: Who's on whose Family Tree.
Who owns or has controlling interest in the ratings agencies should be the number 1 priority question here.
I know it's mine.
And while we're at it, where else do the brances of those Family Trees extend to?
The starting point should be the FED!
The New York attorney general has started an investigation of eight banks to determine whether they provided misleading information to rating agencies in order to inflate the grades of certain mortgage securities, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.
The investigation parallels federal inquiries into the business practices of a broad range of financial companies in the years before the collapse of the housing market.
Where those investigations have focused on interactions between the banks and their clients who bought mortgage securities, this one expands the scope of scrutiny to the interplay between banks and the agencies that rate their securities
