Vile People

Hank Morris is a political operative known for his intense and aggressive style. He directed Charles E. Schumer's successful 1998 campaign to unseat Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato and even pushed his own mother, Rita, a retired professor, to run for Congress in 1992. She

Angelo R. Mozilo (born 1938 in New York City) was the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial until July 1, 2008.

In 1978 he and his former mentor David S. Loeb, who had already started a mortgage lending company, founded

Joseph P. Nacchio (born June 22, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York), was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International from 1997 to 2002. He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007. On July 27

Hassan Nemazee is a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker and Chairman of Nemazee Capital. On August 25th, 2009 Nemazee was arrested for fraudulently applying for a loan of over $74 million from Citigroup.

Earnest Stanley O'Neal is the former President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was also a member of the board of

Founder, Private Equite Management Group Inc.

Mr. Pang's résumé depicts a glittering success story: a Taiwanese immigrant who earned an M.B.A., worked on Wall Street and now heads a $4 billion investment fund. He also became a partner in another fund firm with

John Alfred Paulson (born December 14, 1955) is the founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund. (He is not related to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman CEO.) Paulson & Co. reaped billions by betting against subprime

Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman (born June 19, 1954) is a former impresario of the successful 1990s boy bands the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. In 2006, it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history,

Anonymous author of "Confessions of a TARP wife".

Eduardo Alberto "Eddie" Perez (born 1957) is a, former gang member, American politician, and the present Mayor of Hartford, Corrupticut.