St. Paul-based Green Tree Financial is being sold to an Indiana insurance company. Conseco (kahn SAY co) will buy Green Tree for about $7.6 billion if stockholders and federal regulators give their approval. The deal is seen as a way for Green Tree to expand its loan business for consumer products. Green Tree's founder Larry Coss, once America's highest paid corporate executive, will stay on as head of the company. Coss says he expects the deal means Green Tree will hire more employees. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson reports. The 23-year-old Green Tree Financial got its start selling mobile home mortages. It's one of the country's fastest growing and most profitable consumer loan businesses. Green Tree's profits have come down but business is growing, Coss says, because c