Fannie Mae: Raines’ Pay Settlement

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A couple of years after Fannie Mae’s financial reporting breakdown appeared (they still haven’t filed 2004 or 2005 financials), at least one milestone is nearly complete: the separation pay package for then-CEO Franklin Raines. He’s settling for $2.6 million.

Still up in the air, from this 8-K:

“• whether Mr. Raines is entitled to additional unpaid base salary of up to approximately $139,000 for the period from December 2004 to June 2005;


I’m sure that Fannie Mae shareholders have an answer of their own as to whether or not Mr. Raines is entitled to any of the above rewards. (Not to be printed here.) The settlement serves as a reminder that the restatement is yet to be complete; it’s slipped off my radar and I’m sure I’m not the only one. It also makes you wonder if they’re coming to a close on at least the 2004 statements.

• whether Mr. Raines’ employment agreement entitles him to awards under our Annual Incentive Plan for 2004 and 2005;

• whether Mr. Raines is entitled to specified share amounts under our Performance Share Plan, or PSP, up to a possible maximum of 561,480 shares;

• whether Mr. Raines is entitled to any shares for any award cycle under the PSP commencing in 2005; and

• whether Mr. Raines’ employment agreement entitles him to any additional stock options.

Final resolution of these issues is expected to be deferred until after the results of our accounting restatement are announced.”

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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