“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.
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.
Maybe he knew that he was going to get “probed” by Barney Frank and didn’t want to experience the indignity.
And that something won't be pretty. Remember all the folks that died and were associated with the Clintons? Here we go again.
What is really sad is that this will be used (maybe privately) among certain politicians to further dissuade blame from government interference as a cause of the bubble and collapse. It is easy for some of our partisan leaders to suggest, "See he felt real bad about causing this mess. The stress and guilt drove him to suicide."
And I do mean that is sad. It always amazes me that suicides and deaths of certain folks seem to help the democratic cause when investigations start. I am no conspiracy theorist. But if this guy found damning evidence or if he could show proof of some of the political corruption that was going on, there was probably an immense amount of pressure and ethical turmoil weighing heavy on his heart, his family, his career, etc. For it to drive him to suicide suggests there must have been something he could not deal with.
He was comptroller for the previous 8 years.....