“Who’s next?” was the question being asked by Wall Street executives and consumer advocates alike following the landmark decision by Goldman Sachs & Company to pay up to $60 million for brokering risky home loans during the subprime mortgage craze. What made the Goldman Sachs decision significant was not so much the settlement itself, but the firm’s place in the mortgage crisis. Observers said the case broke new ground because prosecutors reached past the originators of subprime loans and zeroed in on the underwriters who packaged loans to investors and used the proceeds to fund even more mortgage deals.