Yes, according to this:
The FBI is investigating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG - and their executives - as part of a broad look into possible mortgage fraud, sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN Tuesday.
The sources would not speak on the record because the investigation is ongoing.
FBI spokesman Special Agent Richard [...]

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Among Sen. Richard Shelby’s top career donors are employees, their family members and PACs of the following players in the nation’s financial meltdown: Citigroup (”written off and lost $53.6 billion through the credit crunch so far, which is more than any other bank or broker,”) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (which bought Bear Stearns) and First [...]

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Among Sen. Christopher Dodd’s top career donors are employees, their family members and PACs of the following players in the nation’s financial meltdown: Citigroup (”written off and lost $53.6 billion through the credit crunch so far, which is more than any other bank or broker,”) Bear Stearns (”Bear Stearns’s mortgage business, a big driver of [...]

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As Congress begins wrestling with the Bush administration’s financial industry bailout legislation (and Sen. Christopher Dodd’s alternative), perhaps it’s worth asking who are these folks who may well be deciding the economic fate of the nation? In this post (which took me about five hours longer to put together than I’d anticipated; hint to Labs: [...]

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The Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter has a useful list of companies that have gone belly up in the subprime mortgage crisis that appears to be more the trigger than the overall cause of the current financial meltdown. I was looking at it Friday, browsing the stories, and some of it is pretty incredible (the list of [...]

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Our friends at Taxpayers inform us that they’ve just posted…
The complete database of earmarks in the 2009 defense authorization report and bill. The Senate version of the bill currently under debate contains 435 earmarks worth $5.2 billion, a big jump in number from last year’s Senate authorization but a decrease in total value.
They posted an [...]

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Our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics have been doing yeoman’s work compiling lists of the politicians who’ve received the most money over the years from political action committees and employees and their family members of the big financial colossi that are seeking (or having imposed on them) federal help to stave off collapse. [...]

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Taxpayers for Commons Sense rolled out a pair of new databases on earmarks of presidential candidates, this time covering Sen. Barack Obama’s requests from 2006 to 2008, and his funded earmarks for 2008. The databases are online here.
A list of the earmarks Sen. Joe Biden requested for fiscal year 2009 is available here. Robert [...]

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The most interesting story on Alaska Gov. and Republican nominee for Vice President Sarah Palin is the Washington Post’s report that, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin “employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents.” Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense provided the earmark [...]

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In a comment to this post pointing to some resources for getting acquainted with the Republican vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, I noted this Washington Post story on a lawsuit involving Robert Hunter Biden, the son of the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, James Biden, the Senator’s brother, and [...]

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