Figure 12 is an image of JPM’s Shareholder Equity stacked by WAMU’s shareholder equity by year and quarter. At the end of Q2 of 2008, WAMU had a Shareholder Equity of $26B dollars. If we remove goodwill ($7.2B) from assets, then WAMU had assets in excess of liabilities of $18.8B. This number in itself exemplifies the absurdity of Rosen’s comments in court about WMI being hopelessly insolvent after stating that there was in excess of $100B in claims. How does a company with tangible assets in excess of liabilities by $18.8B magically have over $100B in claims after a chapter 11 filing? The only plausible explanation is that many of the claims are bogus and wildly inflated
Maybe these could have been the facts submitted in the letter sent to the Judge walrat and Rosencrap.....