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Freddie Mac CFO David Kellerman commits suicide
NYExaminer ^ | April 22, 2009 | NY Examiner

Posted on 04/22/2009 5:53:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand

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To: the invisib1e hand

Who knows sometimes. The search function defaults to “keyword”, so freddie probably didn’t come up.


21 posted on 04/22/2009 6:19:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: clamper1797

I think his wife found him and called police. She reported a suicide, so I assumed he hanged himself. Don’t know for sure.


22 posted on 04/22/2009 6:20:56 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: the invisib1e hand

...our first Vince Foster under Obama. How sad for his family

If only we could find out what he really knew...


23 posted on 04/22/2009 6:21:07 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: Ann Archy
As the old saying goes, follow the money and find the answers.
24 posted on 04/22/2009 6:21:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
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To: nuconvert

I believe that he committed suicide about like Vince Foster committed suicide.


25 posted on 04/22/2009 6:22:28 PM PDT by sport
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To: Ann Archy
Maybe he just felt some appropriate shame over what he might have done to screw the economy into the ground.

In Japan, this would have been normal. It's what Chuck Grassley referred to about a month ago.

26 posted on 04/22/2009 6:23:48 PM PDT by hunter112 (SHRUG - Stop Hussein's Radical Utopian Gameplan!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

One word...Vince Foster


27 posted on 04/22/2009 6:25:08 PM PDT by y6162
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To: sport

“Neighbors say he had lost a lot of weight and seemed to be stressed out.”

Sounds depressed to me


28 posted on 04/22/2009 6:28:37 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Though Kellerman himself was not targeted in the investigation, he was in line to get bonuses totaling $850,000 over the next year, according to the AP report. Lawmakers don't tend to be happy about huge executive bonuses when the money is coming out of taxpayers' pockets.

Is it me or are they trying to spin it as if the bonuses had something to do with it? I find his pending bonus totally irrelevant to his suicide.

29 posted on 04/22/2009 6:28:56 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Ann Archy

Exactly! Fox said “someone” called 911 at about 5 a.m. “Someone”? A family member? Who else would be in the house at that hour? Who would be looking for him at 5 a.m. (if not a family member)? And I wonder what the actuaries say about suicide by hanging, at home, in the basement, at that hour if there were family members at home.


30 posted on 04/22/2009 6:30:15 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: hunter112

You have specifics of what he should be ashamed of? Or are you just smearing a dead person on the anonymous internet?


31 posted on 04/22/2009 6:34:38 PM PDT by VegasCowboy ("...he wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.")
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To: Mach9

oooohhh ....hanging yourself at home in the basement does sound like a suicide......geesh....he lets his family find him?? YUK...


32 posted on 04/22/2009 6:35:56 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Frankly, I wish it were Franklin Raines. I know that’s ghoulish, not charitable, and un-Christian, but nobody is going to hold the filthy crooks at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accountable because they are complicit with Congress in creating this mess, so the least they could do is dispatch themselves.


33 posted on 04/22/2009 6:37:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

The bonus didn’t have anything do to with it, but capitalism certainly did. Capitalism is evil and drives people to suicide. Even though it’s a Government Sponsored Enterprise, it’s close enough to capitalism to smear it with a broad brush.


34 posted on 04/22/2009 6:40:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: the invisib1e hand
Lawmakers don't tend to be happy about huge executive bonuses when the money is coming out of taxpayers' pockets.

Oh please. As long as the money is going into their own pockets or those of their friends, they are thrilled.

35 posted on 04/22/2009 6:44:15 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Shades of the Clintons.


36 posted on 04/22/2009 6:48:49 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Others 'got away with murder' at Freddie, but this poor guy had a different fate, apparently.

Jamie Gorelick (yes, THAT Jamie Gorelick of 9-11 Brick Wall fame) earned an estimated $26,000,000 serving as vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003.

The Clinton administration's White House Budget Director Franklin Raines ran Fannie and collected $50,000,000.

Big Democrat Jim Johnson, recently on Obama's VP search committee, has hauled in millions from his Fannie Mae CEO job. Johnson earned $21,000,000 in just his last year at Fannie Mae.

37 posted on 04/22/2009 6:55:41 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: ArtyFO
will Franklin Raines be next?....he actually does have some responsibility for cooking the books
38 posted on 04/22/2009 7:06:14 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: nuconvert

Think of why the Obama administration has been unable to fill almost all of the top spots from deputy secretary on down.

No one with any professional reputation and credibility on Wall Street is going to throw it away now by joining an Administration hell-bent on driving America and the world into the mother of all depressions.

Thus these jobs get filled either by incompetent sycophants or inexperienced scapegoats.

David Kellerman was apparently not the former and may have been unwilling to be the latter—and that probably sealed his fate.

If he did commit suicide, perhaps it was for him the only way out of a personally and professionally untenable situation. If he was murdered, he had plenty of people in Washington with motive looking for means and opportunity.


39 posted on 04/22/2009 7:17:29 PM PDT by Loyalist (This tagline is ISO 9001 compliant.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Police didn't disclose the specific cause of death...at least they have real police investigating this, and not park rangers who helped bungle - er- investigate the Vince Foster affair.....
40 posted on 04/22/2009 7:20:41 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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