Regulators and lawmakers have asked Freddie Mac, a government-chartered financier
of home mortgages, to withhold severance packages from former executives forced
out of the company on June 6, until more information is revealed about their
departures, the New York Times reports.For a Limited Time receive a
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and chief executive and chief financial officer.
A special counsel is investigating accounting irregularities at the company.
The company came under increased scrutiny after the firm disclosed that it
would pay about $24 million in stock options, salary and bonus as a severance
package to its former chief executive, the newspaper reports.
Richard H. Baker, R-La., wrote in a letter to the company's federal regulator
that the severance packages should be held until more information is revealed
on why the company forced out the executives, according to the newspaper. Baker
is chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the company.
"We are deeply concerned that these individuals would be granted these
types of severance packages before their roles in the current troubles of Freddie
Mac are clearly understood," Baker wrote to Armando Falcon, director of
the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.
Falcon has ordered the company to withhold the severance packages until they
are reviewed, the newspaper reports.
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