Holy Crap: Wamu CEO is out too over the weekend....

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Submitted by flu on September 7, 2008 - 7:48pm

It's smackdown time for the CEO's and banks...Interesting weekend indeed.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/07/news/com...

Submitted by equalizer on September 7, 2008 - 10:08pm.

From title thought it meant he we went out somewhere over weekend partying, etc, but real SHOCK is that he was given no golden parachute, just low $14.9 million in deferred compensation.

Submitted by bubba99 on September 7, 2008 - 10:24pm.

This would be funny if it were not so tragic.

The new WAMU CEO if from Sovereign Bank. Sovereign Bank has about half a trillion or 13% of its assets in Fannie and Freddie preferred stock.

The new guy is worse than the old one in terms of performance - Sovereign is now technically bankrupt based on 90% haircut on its preferred position.

Submitted by equalizer on September 7, 2008 - 10:47pm.

BTW for all the acrimony Poway Seller stirred up, she got WAMU prediction right from years ago. Early, but right.