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Senator Dianne Feinstein spoke at a chamber luncheon at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. She spoke about the economy and urged anyone having problems regarding foreclosure to call her office sighting an example of a home owner her office has helped who was trying for refinancing with Bank of America. In the example they helped lower the owners mortgage by $400. Photo taken April 10, 2012 in Sacramento, California.

Paul Sakuma Associated Press file, 2007 Subprime lending brought down Countrywide Home Loans, once the nation's largest mortgage lender and biggest loan servicer, which then was acquired by Bank of America. BofA said it settled Countrywide's FTC case "to avoid the expense and distraction associated with litigating the case."

Luther Findley, on a speaker phone, pleads with a Bank of America representative Dec. 9 for an extension on eviction from the Fair Oaks home he has shared with his wife, Claire, since 1996. "My wife is a quadriplegic, and I have no place to move her," Luther explains. Claire is terminally ill with ALS – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – and wants to die at home. BofA agreed last week not to evict Luther until after Claire's death.

Luther Findley, 55, hooks up food for his wife, Claire, 59, at their foreclosed Fair Oaks home. Claire is in the late stages of ALS. Bank of America recently said they can stay in the home until her death.