| − | In the midst of the [[Financial_Crisis_of_2008|financial crisis of 2008]], it was revealed that Frank's homosexual partner <ref>[http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection] Business & Media Institute, September 24,2008</ref>, an executive at [[Fannie Mae]], had been one of the foreleaders to [[deregulate]] the [[lending]] restrictions on the agency and that Frank may have acted through a [[conflict of interest]] in the 1990s.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html FoxNews]</ref> | + | In the midst of the [[Financial_Crisis_of_2008|financial crisis of 2008]], it was revealed that Frank's former homosexual partner <ref>[http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection] Business & Media Institute, September 24,2008</ref>, an executive at [[Fannie Mae]], had been one of the foreleaders to [[deregulate]] the [[lending]] restrictions on the agency and that Frank may have acted through a [[conflict of interest]] in the 1990s.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html FoxNews]</ref> |