SEC charges ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs with fraud

[dagnybell]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g47jO-D_D2gNCBHY70vmCYaXpKQQ?docId=bdc71849d39b45fe8a262 56c60ac9b10

I wonder if these guys were the ones signing Newt's checks when he worked for Fanny/Freddie?

Do you think this is going to impact Gingrich???

[Kluge]

Do you think this is going to impact Gingrich???
Sure. Gingrich was paid $1.5m from Freddie, some of that pay coming from when the CEO now charged with fraud was still heading the company.

So now, when we mention Gingrich's $1.5m pay, there's a fantastic opportunity to mention Gingrich's enormous pay came from a now-charged-as-fraudulent government-entangled corporation.

[69360]

Yes it's going to wound Gingrich, how much who knows. Depends how close he was to the fraudsters.

[coastie]

Yes it's going to wound Gingrich, how much who knows. Depends how close he was to the fraudsters.

Knowing him, he was probably trying to get w/ their wives and daughters...