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A top executive at Freddie Mac was found dead Wednesday morning from an apparent suicide, according to CBS affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.

David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer and senior vice president of the government-sponsored mortgage lender, was found dead in his home after his wife alerted Fairfax County Police to his suicide, authorities told WUSA.

According to Kellermann’s bio on Freddie Mac’s Website, the 41-year-old was with the company for more than 16 years and was named acting CFO in September.

That was the same month Freddie Mac was placed under conservatorship by the U.S. Treasury as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Phew!




  1. Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection says:

    The wife was probably getting fat and drinking heavily. The kids were driving him nuts. He just said fuck it and threw a rope over a beam. At least he didn’t take the whole family with him like some of these nut jobs.

  2. Glenn E. says:

    The US government only puts unscrupulous, unstable, incompetent, greedy people, in charge of stuff. Cause that’s the only kind they trust. So it shouldn’t be surprising that some self-destruct, now and then. He probably realized that he was going to be made the scapegoat for all that was wrong with Freddie Mac. Either that, or his bosses figured they could bury the problem with him. So he was dead meat, the moment he took the job.

  3. Lou says:

    Look at the bright side, a new job opened up.


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