Individual Execs Under Fire By FHFA

[Reuters] Stempel writes, "By suing 131 individuals in its effort to recover losses on $200 billion of mortgage debt that went sour, the federal agency overseeing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is doing one thing that the government has largely left alone."

[Reuters] The lawsuits don’t target the biggest fish like Alan Schwartz, Dick Fuld, Ken Lewis, or Kerry Killinger—no “household names,” Stempel says. Those guys insulated themselves with some degree of plausible deniability regarding what their underlings were doing.

Three big cheers for Reuters and Stempel for covering this story. Nonetheless, we all deserve more information about each one of the 131 individuals implicated in these lawsuits.