I was there at the beginning...it has always been around as WM, but just wasn't that active until the seizure. Then on Monday Sept 29th, 2008 I believe it became WAMUQ. That was the first day I bought, 100K shares at .03 or so... We were very active for about 2 - 3 months, everyone thought a settlement would be announced any weekend like when Bear Sterns was seized.
And things were looking very good, JPM was even going to give the 4.4 Billion back. Then the FDIC stepped in and everything went to heck.