What about the GSE pricks…how are they doing in the bonus department? Here’s a brief half-assed history on these bastards:

FRANKLIN RAINES [D] – FNMA CEO (1999 – 2004) Raines accepted “early retirement” from his CEO position while the SEC pretended to investigate accounting irregularities. Fannie’s own OHFHEO also accused him of abetting widespread accounting errors, including the shifting of losses, so he and his fellow execs could “earn” large bonuses. The WSJ reported back in 2008 that Raines was one of several cronies that received below market rates for mortgages [...]

DAN MUDD TO TAKE LEAVE OF ABSENCE AS FORTRESS CEO

DAN MUDD TO TAKE LEAVE OF ABSENCE AS FORTRESS CEO

Luckily, he is certainly the only legacy CEO who had been (allegedly) fraudulently misrepresenting material information. Because as we all know all the other legacy CEOs got the boot in the transition from the pre-bubble to post-bubble years. Oh wait…

Full statement:

Business Wire

NEW YORK — December 21, 2011

Fortress Investment Group today announced that Daniel Mudd is taking a leave of absence from [...]

SEC SUES EX-FREDDIE, FANNIE CHIEFS

From Bloomberg:

Daniel Mudd, the former chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, andRichard Syron, ex-CEO of Freddie Mac, were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans held by the agencies.

The lawsuits filed today in Manhattan federal court were followed by an SEC statement that it had entered into non- prosecution agreements with each lender. Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise which issues [...]