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Fairholme Responds to FHFA/Treasury
Posted by ToddSullivan
on March 17th, 2014




This is bordering on the absurd. I’ve marked up the document. What you will find in Treasury and FHFA consistently making arguments to win “point A” that are in direct conflict with the argument they made to win “point B”. The effect of that is they effectively invalidate both arguments. In some instances Treasury/FHFA lawyers manage to contradict themselves in the same argument. There is even a case that Treasury/FHFA cite that manages to makes the argument Fairholme is trying to make.

Cooper and Kirk ($FAIRX law firm) is running circles around the folks at Treasury and FHFA. I find that chance discovery is denied (in Circuit Court here) to be infinitely small (note discovery was already granted in DC Court of Claims).

You really have to step back and consider the admission from FHFA that they did not make an administrative record of the decision to enter into the Net Worth Sweep in 2012. Essentially the FHFA is saying they agreed to enter into an agreement with Treasury to take $180B in upcoming profits and give them to Treasury in place of the ~$18B they were owed (in 2012) AND THEN provided Treasury with what gov’t officials are now saying is another $180B-$200B in profits over the next decade. You see? They essentially agreed to hand over nearly half a trillion dollars from shareholders to the Treasury and no one thought, “we might need to keep a record of this decision making process”? It is unfathomable any gov’t agency (Fed, State or even Local) would do this. Unfathomable.