If, as in your final paragraph you surmise, WAMU recovers assets in the range of 11.3 billion and is able to schedule repayment of 7.83 billion in liabilities over time, then they are a financial force to be reckoned with. In this still teetering economy, cash is king and billions of dollars of lendable cash could make for a sound new bank. Not to mention the resumption of dividend payments the very rumor of which would send all of the equity classes smartly northwards, I should think.
But if the 4 billion is recovered and the judge finds tort in the manner of the fdic's snatch of wmb, then might not the floodgates open and treble damages come into play?......Sam