Hey JWW. Great DD! I was searching for this inception document for a while now, to confirm my findings.
And the point your making about the $40.2 billion is another confirmation of the existence of possible non cash assets that can generate future cash in the future.
An "adjustment" of minus $40.2 billion, after a writedown of 30 billion by JPM.
That's 70 billion in mortgages expected to vanish in thin air out of 233 billion reported by WaMu at the end of Q2 in 2008.
Looking at the footnote it tells me that unrecorded assets are the ones off balance. And this 40.2 billion represents WMI keeping it's security interest in these assets.
It's negative because in some way or another JPM needs to turnover the future proceeds of these security interests to WMI. It says so black and white in the GSA as I pointed out before. Therefore JPM considered it as Estimated Loss on Claims. Contrary to populair belief, WMI has in fact a claim on FDIC-R and therefore JPM in the form of the WMI-action according to the GSA.
And with the Turnover Action out of the way, we will soon find out what is ours.