Posted on 01/21/2010 2:27:25 PM PST by Need4Truth
What the hell is THIS?
Sheila Bair, one of the chief regulators overseeing Bank of Americas federal rescue, took out two mortgages worth more than $1 million from the banking giant last summer during ongoing negotiations about the banks bailout and its repayment.
It gets better...
Mortgage documents for that 14-room home include a provision, known as a second-home rider, stating that Bair and her husband must keep the house for their exclusive use and enjoyment and may not use it as a rental or timeshare.
Yet the couple has been renting out part of the house since they left for Washington, with Bair listing income from the rental property in Amherst as between $15,000 and $50,000 a year on her most recent financial disclosure form as head of the FDIC.
Oh yeah, there's no conflict of interest here cough-friends-of-angelo-cough!
Of course the FDIC retroactively gave her a waiver from its conflict of interest rules - AFTER The Huffington Post started snooping around.
(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net ...
Silly rabbit, laws are for little people.
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