New York CNN —Angelo Mozilo, former chief executive of Countrywide Financial and a key player in the subprime mortgage meltdown that led to the 2008 financial crisis, died Sunday. “It is with great sadness that the family of Angelo Robert Mozilo announces his passing from natural causes. The family requests privacy at this time,” The Mozilo Family Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Mozilo and his late wife Phyllis, said in a press release. Mozilo’s name and that of the mortgage-lending company he cofounded are closely linked to the subprime mortgage meltdown that helped snowball the financial crisis in 2008. The embattled mortgage lender agreed to be acquired by Bank of America for $4 billion in an all-stock deal in 2008.

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Persons: New York CNN — Angelo Mozilo, Angelo Robert Mozilo, Mozilo, Phyllis Organizations: New, New York CNN, Countrywide Financial, Foundation, Countrywide, Bank of America, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: New York