Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Holds Hearing On Subprime Lending

WASHINGTON - APRIL 07: (L-R) Richard Bitner, Managing Director of Housingwire.com, Patricia Lindsay, former Vice President of corporate risk at the New Century Financial Corporation, Susan Mills, Managing Director of mortgage finance at Citi Markets and Banking, Global Securitized Markets and Richard Bowen, former Senior Vice President and business chief underwriter at CitiMortgage Inc., are sworn in during a hearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission April 7, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The commission began a three-day hearing on "Subprime Lending and Securitization and Government-Sponsored Enterprises" to examine the meltdown of subprime mortgages during the financial crisis in 2008. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)