When shareholders choose a career conman as FHFA's Director candidate, something is rotten. The former FNMA CFO, Timothy Howard, was indicted in 2006 in a criminal ring to defraud FnF and their shareholders, and he was portrayed as the mastermind, because he accumulated a lot of power without any controls. The objective of the accounting fraud was to hit the EPS target bonus. FNMA had to restate 4 years of earnings and pay a fine of 400 millions. Read the S.E.C.'s press release. Also the OPHEO's 348-page report.