I think one needs to look at an itemized description of the concerned assets and the value assigned to each at that time to get an understanding of how they arrived at that figure of 32 billion.
Providian Financial was acquired by WMI in 2005 for around $4.5 bil and today Providian is a subsidiary of JPM. IMHO If this was a WMI subsidiary then it should be returned to the debtors or paid for at market value. Am I getting this wrong? G