Fannie Mae executives and staffers were at the front of the line of Countrywide Home Loans sophisticated influence peddling operation that showered not just GSE employees but Washington insiders with deeply discounted mortgage loans in order to curry favor, according to a newly released House committee report. The 136-page report completes a three-year investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee of Countrywides so-called Friends of Angelo program, named after CEO Angelo Mozillo, which ran for a dozen years until the lender was acquired by Bank of America in 2008.