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Bank of America's acquisition of the troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, is now a done deal. Countrywide faces mounting legal troubles as state and federal regulators probe its lending practices. It has also set aside $1.5 billion to cover increasing loan defaults. From WFAE's Carolinas Business Bureau, Simone Orendain spoke with veteran banking analyst Gary Townsend about lingering questions related to the $2.5 billion stock deal and Bank of America's CEO Ken Lewis.