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A death by hanging in suburban Washington DC, presumed to be a suicide, made it onto the national news agenda because the dead man happened to be in the center of the home mortgage crisis. FreddieMac, which was nationalized last fall along with FannieMae, is "now widely blamed for putting too many people in homes they could not afford," as CBS' Sharyl Attkisson put it. The firm posted losses of $50bn in 2008, noted ABC's Pierre Thomas, and is "under investigation for possible fraud." David Kellerman, the dead man, happened to be FreddieMac's acting Chief Financial Officer. Attkisson's unnamed "law enforcement sources" told her that Kellerman "was not a focus in the criminal probe. Just last month FreddieMac granted Kellerman protection from any lawsuits." Thomas' unidentified source "familiar with the investigation" reassured him that Kellerman "was not a target of the federal probe but the accounting division he oversaw is under scrutiny." So, Thomas concluded, "as of tonight there are no answers. Only grief."
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