At Fannie, The Ties That Blind
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AFTER hemming and hawing and bobbing and weaving, the board of directors of Fannie Mae finally jettisoned Franklin D. Raines, the mortgage finance giant&#39;s former chief executive, and Timothy Howard, its former chief financial officer, last week.
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The forced departure this week of Franklin Raines as chief executive of Fannie Mae wonât end the turmoil at the nationâs second largest financial institution.
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The American fetish for homeownership can lead to some perverted outcomes.
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Though Fannie Mae said it was cooperating fully with a federal examination of its accounting, its regulator says the mortgage finance company was so reluctant that the agency had to subpoena documents and witnesses and ask the Justice Department for help enforcing subpoenas.
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One would think that the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission had ordered mortgage giant Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) to restate earnings downward by more than $9 billion would have caused investors to think very, very carefully about their faith in
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Troubles in mortgageland may get  worse before they get better, especially for the so-called  &quot;subprime&quot; borrowers whose spotty credit histories put them  into more costly loans.
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Two regulatory agencies have concluded that Fannie Mae cut corners when it came to its accounting, severely damaging its image.
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Fannie Mae, the quaintly named mortgage company that sounds like a minor character from TV&#39;s &quot;The Beverly Hillbillies,&quot; is, in fact, the nation&#39;s second-largest financial institution.
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Friends say Franklin Raines overcame race and class barriers only to plummet into an American nightmare. â¢ Experience: Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae, 1999-2004; director, Office of Management and Budget, 1996
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Corporate spin can be a powerful thing. Just ask Fannie Mae&#39;s investors. They spent the last year hearing the mortgage giant&#39;s chief executive Franklin D. Raines continually
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As the appetite for home loans soared, the apparent inability of lenders to spot suspicious transactions is puzzling to some.
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The forced departure of Franklin D. Raines as chief executive of Fannie Mae hardly ends the turmoil at the nation's second-largest financial institution. Civil, criminal, and congressional investigations are underway as the mortgage giant begins what could be a long process of cleaning up the books and reestablishing credibility.
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Fannie Mae chief executive Franklin D. Raines invited reporters to his Wisconsin Avenue headquarters a year ago to complain good-naturedly that recent disclosures of accounting manipulations at smaller rival Freddie Mac had unjustly hurt his company.
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Few people know much about mortgage giant Fannie Mae aside from its TV ads, which paint the company as the $1 trillion version of George Bailey&#39;s savings and loan in It&#39;s a Wonderful Life.
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Accounting scandals, first at Freddie Mac and now alleged at Fannie Mae, call into question the future of those government-sponsored but investor-owned companies that buy home mortgages from lenders.
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A shocking expose hit the Street last week about one of the best-loved, most all-American companies out there: Fannie Mae, the mortgage and financial services giant.
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Throughout the tumult of the past several years, there was one aspect of Fannie Mae culture that seemed to hold steady.