Washington Mutual gave a mortgage to O.J. Simpson

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With a $33.5 million judgment outstanding against him, O.J. Simpson would seem like a really, really dumb person to lend money to.

But during the boom years of mortgage malfeasance, it seems, there was a really, really dumb lender ready and waiting to serve every really, really dumb borrower.

The Seattle Times takes a long look at the collapse of Washington Mutual, and the greed, lack of internal controls, and reckless, short-term growth and stock price-obsessed corporate culture that led to its demise. Midway through the piece, Fay Chapman, WaMu's chief legal officer from 1997 to 2007, dropped this bombshell:

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