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The Curse of the Mortgage CEO

What’s worse than dropping the F bomb once?

Dropping it 73 times, which is exactly what HTFC Mortgage Company CEO Aron Wider did. Wider and his lawyer received a $29,000 sanction from a federal judge for his potty mouth and his lawyer is attributing the profanity on an anxiety disorder.

There’s a lot of finger pointing going on in this subprime mess. And there’s more than just one person to blame. But it seems yucky that someone who can barely manage his career-damaging motor mouth isn’t also controlling a gazillion dollars of consumer money. There’s an even scarier F word at the root of Wider and his fellow mortgage mates agony - foreclosure.

Those finance types have always been kind of intense, but 73 uses indicates that they’re shaking in their Armani boots.

Maybe. But in the short term, Wider might just need a new PR team.

-Mary Pilon

PS - For added fun, here’s the Wikipedia list of movies that use the duck (minus the d, add the f) word the most. Around here at FiLife, we’re content using terms like “turdburglar” and “barfatarian,” but the list is there for the F curious.

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