Countrywide won influence with discounts
• APThe former Countrywide, whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/us-usa-housing-countrywide-idUSBRE86503920120706
They are called bribes unless lobbyists pay them.