I must admit that you've made a very interesting point, re the WMI Notes that were paid in full using WMI cash; ie, the $4B deposit and the Tax refunds.
""IF"" these WMI Bonds were indeed secured (not sure) by Trust assets, the question is whether payments were made directly to the investors or made to WMI who then redistributed them to the Noteholders.
Not sure how it would work if the WMI Bondholders received payments directly from the Trustees, but if the payments were made to WMI who then redistributed it to investors, that would be very interesting IMO!!!