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Countrywide Financial Corp.’s former CEO, Angelo Mozilo, said the Securities and Exchange Commission now admits the home lender wasn’t hiding from investors that it was originating risky mortgages.

Mozilo, 71, in a filing yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles, asked US District Judge John F. Walter to rule on the SEC’s fraud allegations, saying the “undisputed evidence” shows there was no wrongdoing. Former Countrywide Chief Operating Officer David Sambol and former Chief Financial Officer Eric Sieracki also asked Walter to decide the case in their favor without a trial.

“The undisputed evidence establishes, and the SEC now admits, that stockholders understood Countrywide’s underwriting guidelines expanded over time,” lawyers for Mozilo and the two other defendants said in the filing.

John McCoy, a lawyer for the SEC, didn’t return a call for comment.

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