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Kerry Killinger

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Kerry Killinger, Other WaMu Execs, Reach Settlement in Likely Final Government Case

    Killinger​The government's pursuit of Kerry Killinger is apparently over except for the official champagne uncorking - by Killinger. The feds have already ended a fruitless criminal probe of the man behind America's biggest bank failure. Now a Seattle federal judge says a settlement is pendin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Kerry Killinger, Other Former Execs, Agree to $41 Million Payout in Latest WaMu Settlement

    Killinger.​Another lawsuit against ex-Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger and other WaMu execs is being settled as major legal action against the officials responsible for America's biggest bank failure nears an end - without anyone going to jail and the bank's insurance company paying the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    WaMu's Kerry Killinger, Two Execs, Committed No Crimes in America's Biggest Bank Failure

    Killinger​It was no accident that federal prosecutors announced the indictment of alleged mortgage loan fraudster Shawn Portmann and three other Pierce Commercial Bank employees Friday morning, sending reporters scurrying for details. That allowed U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan to subsequently iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Kerry Killinger, Ex-WaMu CEO, and Two Other Top Execs Sued by FDIC for the Bank's Failure

    Killinger​To the presumable cheers from stockholders, customers and others who saw their century-old bank go down the toilet while the lenders walked away with small fortunes, the feds today announced they are suing former Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger and two other top WaMu officials ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    The John Report

    Has Almost Live's Keister been rewarded for his loyalty to Seattle?

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Kerry Killinger, Millionaire and Former WaMu CEO, Claims Victim Status at Senate Hearing

    Kerry Killinger blames "clubby" Wall Street leaders for WaMu's demise.​Pity poor Kerry Killinger. The onetime Washington Mutual CEO made $25 million in 2008, the year he was ousted and the thrift imploded, but he still wasn't part of the Wall Street club. That, at least, is his view, one he i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Washington Mutual Remixed "Baby Got Back" at Lavish Retreat

    "Even white boys got to do a parody."​Today's Senate hearings on the Washington Mutual collapse are the gift that keeps on giving. First we heard from former CEO and victimized rich white guy Kerry Killinger, who claimed Wall Street's clubby nature led to his bank's seizure. Now comes news t ... More >>

  • Arts

    December 9, 2009

    Signs of Financial Insecurity

    "Even white boys got to do a parody."​Today's Senate hearings on the Washington Mutual collapse are the gift that keeps on giving. First we heard from former CEO and victimized rich white guy Kerry Killinger, who claimed Wall Street's clubby nature led to his bank's seizure. Now comes news t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    In a Cold, Skeptical World, O.J. Simpson Found Someone Who Believed in Him: Washington Mutual

    ​It's been two years since the Seattle business known locally as "the friend of the family," and known nationally for serving up mortgages to anyone who could be propped up in a chair and made to scrawl something resembling a signature, became better known as the biggest catastrophic bank fail ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2009

    April Fool: 22 Things About Seattle That We Wish Were a Joke

    The people, trends, and events that even our cynical minds find hard to believe. (Online exclusive! Two bonus April Fools' jokes!)

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2008

    Kerry Killinger Speaks

    This from today's comprehensive, devastating New York TImes account of how Washington Mutual destroyed itself, and contributed mightily to the subprime mortgage crisis, through reckless lending: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    WaMu's Final Finger

    This from today's comprehensive, devastating New York TImes account of how Washington Mutual destroyed itself, and contributed mightily to the subprime mortgage crisis, through reckless lending: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    WaMu's Tidal Wave

    This from today's comprehensive, devastating New York TImes account of how Washington Mutual destroyed itself, and contributed mightily to the subprime mortgage crisis, through reckless lending: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    It's Official: WaMu for Sale

    This from today's comprehensive, devastating New York TImes account of how Washington Mutual destroyed itself, and contributed mightily to the subprime mortgage crisis, through reckless lending: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    WaMu Layoffs With A Side of Lawsuit

    This from today's comprehensive, devastating New York TImes account of how Washington Mutual destroyed itself, and contributed mightily to the subprime mortgage crisis, through reckless lending: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to th ... More >>

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Where to Draw the Lines

    Dec. 8-14, 2004

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