ac360blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
So who is to blame for this financial fiasco? That’s the question we’ve begun investigating. We’ve put together a list of the Ten Most Wanted: Culprits of the Collapse. #2 on our list: former CEO of mortgage giant Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.
Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... the surface-to-air missiles he was transporting when he was illegally captured.• Bringing back Franklin Raines to run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with the Federal Reserve? Yup.Just kidding about that last one.Wouldn't surprise me though.All of this stuff courtesy of Larwyn.Labels: , , , , , // posted by directorblue @ 9:54 PM |
DPGI - the aftermath (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
So much being hidden from the public about the track records of failure on the Obama team. Why do you think a collapse the dwarfs ENRON would get ignored by the press and the people involved like Rahm Emanuel, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick invited to work with the Obama team and others directly [...]
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Franklin Raines was Fannie Mae's boss and he got $90 Million in salary and bonuses for this? And now he's Obama's Chief Economic Advisor? Fannie Mae loses record US$29-billion NEW YORK -- Fannie Mae, the largest provider of funding for U.S. residential mortgages, said Monday it lost a record US$29-billion in the third quarter as the company wrote down a tax-related asset that has buoyed...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... by many members of senior management," including then-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, Mr. Donilon and Fannie Mae's general counsel, according to the OFHEO report.
Basti Says (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Where are they now? Courtesy of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler Funny how this never made it to the front page….or any page at all, for that matter Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who [...]
Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Many observers believe that the mainstream media could have blown Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign to bits over a single long weekend. A couple of hit pieces featuring Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Edward Said, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, the lost years at Columbia, ... well, you get the picture. Any of the big outlets could've put a stake in the heart of Obama's...
Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... sit firmly on the shoulders of Brak, (who sued citibank so they’d give loans to the unqualified) Franklin Raines, Acorn, Jamie Gorelick, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Reno, etc. And the Autoworker bailout should sit on the shoulders of the union leaders who blackmailed the companies into greater and unnecesarily greater levels of benefits and wages, and the upper management who allow this crap...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.” The old news about Franklin Raines being CEO of Freddie Mac during and leading into the subprime mortgage crisis , where he began a pilot program to issue bank loans to individuals with low to moderate income, and to ease credit requirements on loans that Fannie Mae purchased from banks. Not to mention...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... and Emanuel have close links to the failed mortgage giants (former Fannie Mae CEO and fraudster Franklin Raines was an Obama advisor , and former Fannie CEO Jim Johnson originally chaired Obama’s vice-presidential search committee ). Finally, after all the unbelievable campaign promises, we are witnessing a “change we can” actually “believe in.”
PoliPundit.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Mozilo, other Countrywide employees, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. Kent Conrad, (former Fannie Mae CEO) Franklin Raines or other public officials,” said Feinberg’s lawyer, Anthony Salerno. “Robert has always cooperated thoroughly with authorities and is strictly a witness in their investigation.”
cold fury (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
THE KOOKY KUMBAYAH KRAZE THAT’S SWEEPING THE NATION! I was planning to offer my congratulations until I heard Obama insult Mrs. Reagan. If that’s his idea of a joke, he needs some new dialectical material. So in the spirit of planetary healing and national unity, let me offer this instead: *OBAMA WAS SELECTED, NOT ELECTED! *HE STOLE HALF THE [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... room. Neighbors include former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and the ex-wife of Mudd's predecessor, Franklin Raines.
A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... Mozilo, other Countrywide employees, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. Kent Conrad, (former Fannie Mae CEO) Franklin Raines or other public officials," said Feinberg's lawyer, Anthony Salvano. "Robert has always cooperated thoroughly with authorities and is strictly a witness in their investigation."'Friends of Angelo's'Salvano said the prosecutors and FBI agents seemed focused on whether the...
Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... amaze me. 2. Fannie May and Freddie Mac. This cocksucker (Baracklava), Christopher Dodd, Franklin Raines, and that cockchugging Barney Frank personally engineered this fucking financial nightmare. Your answer? “Hey, somebody give Barack the checkbook!” You people really need to step into a pitch and take one for the team. 3. Joe the Plumber. Let’s see if I get this straight… A common...
