Clearly FHFA's opinion on the legality of their auditors actions differs from the auditor's assessment, why else would a PwC settlement out of court ever occur?
The hilarious part that you're purposefully omitting here, which shows your obvious Gov't bias, is that PwC knows it has a duty to the shareholders - the actual stock certificate shareholders - not ONLY the Gov't inserted PSPAs that the gov't now temporarily 'owns' thanks to the now obviously unnecessary bailout (look at the forensic accounting analysis - no bailout was needed sorry not sorry).
Maybe the Edwards plaintiffs, the real shareholders, would be fine paying for the auditing fees if they were given their company back? The Billions FNMA makes a year would easily cover the tab. thanks for playing Mr. Yank!