Shortly after University of San Diego invited Mozilo to be the keynote speaker at a conference for "sustainable real estate", DisinviteMozilo was created in protest on January 10, 2008. Mozilo pulled out six days later. Shortly after that, Congress invited Mozilo to testify about his compensation. In May 2008, Mozilo made the news by accidentally hitting "reply" instead of "forward" in response to an e-mail from a distressed homeowner named Daniel Bailey of North Carolina. Bailey had created a hardship letter to request a loan modification from Mozilo on a website forum named LoanSafe.org. Bailey then sent his request directly to the Office of the President of Countrywide and this was Angelo Mozilo's reply.
