FBI Investigating Financial Crisis NEW YORK (Associated Press) -

The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a 700 billion-dollar bailout plan by the Bush administration.

Two law enforcement officials say the FBI is looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and insurer American International Group.

A senior law enforcement official says the inquiries, still in preliminary stages, will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them.

Officials say the new inquiries brings the number of corporate lenders under investigation over the last year to 26.
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