Posted on 04/22/2009 8:14:29 AM PDT by truthnomatterwhat
David Keller was found dead in his home Tuesday morning in an apparent suicide. Keller, 41, has served as the acting chief financial officer (CFO) for Freddie Mac since September. Kellerman reportedly hanged himself in the basement of his Reston, Va. home. The Fairfax County Police Department said there are no signs of foul play.
Keller took over as CFO when Anthony “Buddy” Piszel resigned in the wake of the government takeover. The news comes on the heals of Freddie Mac CEO David Moffett's resignation last month.
The government-controlled Freddie Mac owns or guarantees about...
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Were his hands tied behind his back?
A lot of comments and conjecture at this Market Watch link. Page 8 has a detailed list of current and past people involved. I was surprised to see both Rahm Emanuel and Newt Gingrich on the list.
Wow! This makes the 4th or 5th Freddie Mac hanging reported on FR today. Those guys are dropping like flies.
Too bad. What could have happened to put so much pressure on him? Prayers for his family. What a shock suicide is for a family.
On a more partisan note, I wonder when someone will blame Bush.
ROTFLOL!
“What could have happened to put so much pressure on him?”
Very strange. The guy was only CFO for 8 months. Me thinks he knew something is up.
This guy is Keller in the lede...doesn’t get mann until a little ways into the article.
It’s kind of like the Spinal Tap drummers, they just keep dying.
At least some one up there apparently has a conscience!
He'd been with them since 1992 or something. UK Times:
Last month Freddie Mac controversially paid 92 staff $100,000 or more in return for staying with the lender while it dug its way out of financial trouble. Mr Kellermann received $850,000 as part of the scheme.
The payments incensed politicians, who were already furious over a $165 million bonus handout at AIG, the insurer that owes US taxpayers $80 billion.
Congressmen pointed to the $108 billion loss made by Freddie Mac and its partner company, Fannie Mae, last year.
This is at least the third time the dude committed suicide here on FR this morning.
Sloppy journalism, she can’t even get his name right...it is Kellerman, not Keller.
Maybe he knew that he was going to get “probed” by Barney Frank and didn’t want to experience the indignity.
He’d been there for 16 years. I’m sure he knew a lot and may have been involved in a lot.
He apparently was using an alias this time (Keller vs. Kellerman).
HF
I want to try to put this as delicately as possible, but . . . sometimes suicide by hanging is actually an accident. The victim does not intend to die.
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