NY Times:
On Feb. 22, the company said the ... New York Stock Exchange contacted it about sales in the companyâs securities before that announcement. On Wednesday, it received notice from the United States attorneyâs office in Los Angeles that it was conducting a criminal investigation. Federal prosecutors are looking into trading in New Century securities and errors in how the company accounted for home loans....
It is unclear what stock sales investigators are looking at, but data ... [shows] that two of the companyâs top executives sold sizable blocks of shares in the second half of last year....
Earlier last spring, the executives, both of whom are still on the board, said they would be moving out of their leadership positions.