Posted on 04/23/2009 11:39:43 AM PDT by pissant
VIENNA, Va. (AP) — Freddie Mac's acting chief financial officer was apparently told to take time off from work days before he committed suicide.
David Kellerman of Vienna, Va., was found dead Wednesday in the basement of his home. A person close to the company says the chief human resources officer met with Kellerman earlier this week and encouraged him to take a few days off because he had been working hard.
The person requested anonymity because the individual wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The 41-year-old Kellerman was promoted last September when the government seized the mortgage company and ousted its top two executives. Neighbors said Kellermann had lost a noticeable amount of weight under the strain of the new job.
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Hmmmmmm..... the plot thickens.
There is little chance this was suicide
This is just the human resources and legal departments engaging in CYA.
For whatever reason, 2 words come to mind: Vincent and Foster.
I wonder if the guy knew that when they suggested he take “time off”, they were talking about a dirt nap?
Kellerman was top dog. The “human resources” department doesn’t tell the CFO to take time off.
LOL
Yep. The CFO works for the Board.
But he doesn’t work for the Human resources manager.
I was kind of hoping that something good would have come out of this, like Kellerman packaging up numerous financial documents and meeting minutes exposing Frank and Dodd and sending them everywhere before ending his life.
Don’t mean to be morbid.
“The person requested anonymity because the individual wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.”
Then that person should be fired.
Except he’s anonymous, so its hard to fire an unknown.
“Hard”, yes... but seldom impossible.
But the fact remains that SOMEONE wants that information out there...for whatever reason.
Have the police said whether he left a note...one way or the other?
If there are financial irregularities, you usually find them when the perp takes some time off. That’s why banks make people take time off.
By ‘take time off’ they meant ‘take time to off yourself’.
You know when you work in a bank in a sensitive position, they require a 2 week consecutive vacation to check for fraud, etc. The fact that this guy was working all hours in advance of an audit and had to be told to go home. Sounds like fraud to me.
Who believes that HR ever takes the initiative on anything?
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