U.S.

Department of Justice

Criminal Division



Office of Enforcement Operations Washington, D.C. 20530

August 20, 2014

Anne L. Weismann, Esq.
CREW
1400 Eye Street NW, Suite 450 Re: CRM-300446982
Washington, DC 20005 PR2:GIS6

Dear Ms. Weismann:

This responds to your Freedom of Information Act request dated April 30, 2014, in which
you requested access to records concerning investigations conducted by the Department of
J ustice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning Countrywide Financial Corp. and/or
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and Angelo Mozilo. Please note that this Office has
administratively divided your request into two request files. The subject of this correspondence,
Request No. CRM-300446982, is limited to the portion of your request for records concerning
Countrywide Financial Corp. and/or Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The subject of CRM-
300449586 concerns the portion of your request for records concerning Angelo Mozilo, and was
previously addressed under separate cover. Please refer to Request No. CRM-300446982 in any
future correspondence with this Office regarding this response.

After carefully reviewing the records responsive to your request, this Office has
determined that the documents originated with a United States Attorneys Office and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. In accordance with 28 C.F.R. 16.4(c) (2013), this Office referred that
material to the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) and the FBI for
processing and direct response to you. If you have questions regarding these referrals, you may
contact EOUSA and the FBI at following addresses:


FOIA/Privacy Unit
Executive Office for United States Attorneys
U.S. Department of J ustice
600 E Street, NW, Room 7300
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Record/Information Dissemination Section
Records Management Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
170 Marcel Drive
Winchester, VA 22602-4843


For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement
and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This
response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a

standard notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication
that excluded records do, or do not, exist.

Although I am aware that your request is the subject of ongoing litigation, and that
appeals are not ordinarily acted on in such situations, I am required by statute and regulation to
inform you of your right to file an administrative appeal. Your appeal must be in writing and
addressed to the Director, Office of Information Policy, United States Department of J ustice,
Suite 11050, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530-0001, or you may submit an
appeal through OIP's eFOIA portal at http://www.justice.gov/oip/efoia-portal.html. Your appeal
must be received within sixty days from the date of this letter. Both the letter and the envelope
should be clearly marked Freedom of Information Act Appeal.


Sincerely,

Kenneth Courter
Chief
FOIA/PA Unit










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