WILLIAMS v. FANNIE MAE — Entry #33: MOTION for Summary Judgment by FANNIE MAE, RICHARD LAWCH, GRACE HUERSCHER
Case: WILLIAMS v. FANNIE MAE dcd · 1:05-cv-01483
filed July 28, 2005
What this document is
Docket entry #33 · filed June 21, 2007
MOTION for Summary Judgment by FANNIE MAE, RICHARD LAWCH, GRACE HUERSCHER (Attachments: # (1) Memorandum in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment# (2) Exhibit Exhibit A - Declaration of Grace Huebscher and Deposition Excerpts# (3) Exhibit Exhibit B - 3-28-2007 Williams Dep and Exhibit# (4) Exhibit Exhibit C - Fannie Mae's Interrogatory Responses# (5) Exhibit Exhibit D - Declaration of Richard Lawch# (6) Exhibit Exhibit E - 3-21-2003 Williams Deposition Excerpts# (7) Exhibit Exhibit F - 5-7-2007 Williams Deposition and Exhibit# (8) Exhibit Exhibit G - DC Certificate# (9) Exhibit Exhibit H - Jones Deposition and Exhibits# (10) Exhibit Exhibit I - CAM Amended Complaint# (11) Exhibit Exhibit J - CAM Dismissal Order# (12) Exhibit Exhibit K - Williams Interrogatory Responses# (13) Exhibit Exhibit L - 3-17-2003 Williams Deposition# (14) Exhibit Exhibit M - DC License Document# (15) Exhibit Exhibit N - Draft Complaint# (16) Exhibit Exhibit O - 5-5-2003 Williams Deposition Excerpts# (17) Exhibit Exhibit P - 5-6-2003 Williams Deposition Excerpts# (18) Exhibit Exhibit Q - Westover Declaration# (19) Exhibit Exhibit R - Production Document# (20) Exhibit Exhibit S - Ott Deposition Excerpts# (21) Exhibit Exhibit T - Production Document# (22) Affidavit Declaration of K Grundeman# (23) Statement of Facts Statement of Undisputed Facts# (24) Text of Proposed Order # (25) Certificate of Service)(Goldfrank, Sarah)
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- FANNIE MAE
- WILLIAMS
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Case 1:05-cv-01483-JDB Document 33-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 1 of 29 EXHIBIT A Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3o-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 2 of 29 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARIALICE BATHRUS WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 1:05CV01483 VS. Judge John D. Bates FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, et al. DECLARATION OF GRACE Defendants. : HUEBSCHER I, Grace Huebscher, hereby declare as follows: 1. I have been employed by the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) since 1996. I currently hold the position of Vice President for Capital Markets. 2. Attached hereto at Tab 1 are true and correct copies of excerpts from the transcript of my deposition testimony in the lawsuit entitled CAM Financial Services, Inc. v. General Star Nat’l Insurance Co., et al., Civil Action No. 01-314 (S.D. Miss.) (“CAM Financial lawsuit”). That testimony is true and accurate. 3. Although I met with Ms. Williams concerning the May 2001 Proposal, I did not promise Ms. Williams any business at that or any other time. 4. I did not have any business interactions with Ms. Williams after December 20, 2001, when CAM Financial Services, Inc. (“CAM Financial’) amended the complaint in the CAM Financial lawsuit to add Fannie Mae as a party. 5. I did not have any business interactions with any officer, director or other representative from CAM Financial after December 20, 2001. 6. I never made false and defamatory comments regarding Ms. Williams to any Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3o-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 3 of 29 officer, director or other representative from CAM Financial. 7. I never discouraged CAM Financial from doing business with Ms. Williams. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this 18th of AIR GRACE HUEBSCHER June 2007 at Washington, DC. Case 1:05-cv-01483-J0D8 Document 3a-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 4 of 29 Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3o-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 5 of 29 ae IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 3 SOUTHERN DIVISION 4 woe eee eee eee x 5 CAM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., : 6 Plaintiff, : Case No.1:01cv314BrR 7. 8 GENERAL STAR NATIONAL INSURANCE : 9 COMPANY; GENERAL STAR INDEMNITY : 10 COMPANY: GENERAL STAR MANAGEMENT: 11 COMPANY, GENERAL RE CORPORATION;: 12 GENERAL REINSURANCE CORPORATION;: 13 CRUMP INSURANCE SERVICES OF 14 MEMPHIS, INC.; CRAIG OTT, 15 INDIVIDUALLY AND IN HIS 16 REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY AS VICE : 17 PRESIDENT OF GENERAL STAR 18 MANAGEMENT COMPANY 19 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE 20 ASSOCIATION 21 (FANNIE MAE), 22 Defendants. 23 ------- errr e Xx 24 Washington, D.C. 25 Tuesday, March 25, 2003 March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page I CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002343 Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3a-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 6 of 29 00002 1 Videotaped deposition of GRACE ANN 2 HUEBSCHER, a witness herein, called for examination 3 by counsel for Plaintiff in the above-entitled 4 matter, pursuant to notice, the witness being duly 5 sworn by MARY GRACE CASTLEBERRY, a Notary Public in 6 and for the District of Columbia, taken at the Four 7 Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 8 Washington, D.C., at 9:53 a.m., Tuesday, March 25, 9 2003, and the proceedings being taken down by 10 Stenotype by MARY GRACE CASTLEBERRY, RPR, and 11 transcribed under her direction. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 2 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002344 Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3o-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 7 of 29 00013 1 National Cooperative Bank. And from 1989 to 1994, I 2 believe, I was with National Cooperative Bank running 3 their mortgage company in Washington, D.C. And from 4 1994 to 1996, I was with Hamilton Securities and from 5 1996 until now, I was with Fannie Mae. 6 QQ. And I want to come back to a couple of 7 those. The only professional degrees, then, you have 8 are your B.A. in economics and Spanish Literature? 9 A. Yes. 10 Q. When you went to work for Fannie Mae in 11 1996, what position did you originally come on board 12 as? 13. A. Iwas the director of aggregation. 14 QQ. What does the director of aggregation do? 15 A. Iwas hired to start Fannie Mae's 16 multifamily conduit which was a means by which we 17 allowed our lenders, which normally risk share with 18 us, to deliver loans to us on a nonrecourse basis. i9 Q. AndI'msorry, did you say risk share? 90 A. Yes. And, you know, pause if you have -- 21 Luse a lot of lingo. 22 Q. Iunderstand. And some of that I may ask 23 you to define as we go along. Let me see. You said 24 you were hired to start Fannie Mae's multifamily 25 conduit which is a means by which we allowed our March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 13 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002355 Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document 3a-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 8 of 29 00014 1 lenders, which we normally share risk with us, to 2 deliver loans on a nonrecourse basis. 3 Can you give me that in layman's terms? 4 A. Sure. Fannie Mae multifamily, as its 5 business model, primarily chooses to purchase loans 6 from lenders and would like those lenders to share in 7 the risk of that sale. Our prominent program is the 8 DUS program which stands for delegated underwriting 9 and servicing. 10 That's -- the majority of the volume or 11 purchases of mortgages through multifamily come 12 through that channel. And we buy loans from the DUS 13 lenders one by one, and the lenders, when they sell 14 them to us, they agree to share in the losses if any 15 losses occur on a loan-by-loan basis. 16 QQ. Andso when you say one by one, that's on 17 a loan-by-loan basis -- 18 <A. Right. 19 QQ. --as opposed to a lender-by-lender basis. 20 <A. Yes, with that specific lender. All the 21 DUS lenders share risk according to a prescribed 22 formula on a loan level basis and they take 5 percent 23 of the first loss of any loan, if in fact it goes 24 into default, then they share thereafter. That's the 25 primary majority of our business and has always been. March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 14 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002356 Case 1:05-cv-01483-JOB Document3a-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 9 of 29 00015 i We also buy pools from lenders from mostly 2 depositories and insurance companies and there too 3 typically we require that they share risk in those 4 portfolios. 5 What had happened in mid-1980s is that 6 many of our DUS lenders were going to Wall Street and 7 selling their loans without any risk sharing. And 8 typically they do this because either they've had too 9 much concentration to one borrower, maybe a 10 geographic concentration, or they just choose not to 11 take a risk in a particular market so that they were 12 selling those loans to the Wall Street firms. 13 The Wall Street firms, without any risk 14 sharing. The Wail Street firms would then turn 15 around and create securities, typically REMICs, which 16 are real estate mortgage investment conduits. And 17 those pools and REMICs were basically rated by rating 18 agencies and chopped up into AAA, AA, all the way 19 down to unrated securities and sold to third parties. 20 What was happening was many of the Wall 21 Street firms were coming to Fannie Mae and saying to 22 Fannie Mae, would you please wrap the risk for AAA 23 down to BBB, which is the risk profile we typically 24 like to take. And what Fannie Mae discovered is why 25 not provide this service directly to our lenders March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 15 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002357 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 10 of 29 00016 1 rather than having them go through a Wall Street firm 2 who is going to take a slice and, you know, basically 3 improve the economics. 4 Q. And let Fannie Mae keep that slice that 5 was going to the Wall Street firm? 6 A. Orsharing it with the lenders, just 7 improving the economics, or even passing that on to a 8 savings to the borrowers ultimately who are 9 multifamily owners of properties who are taking out 10 these mortgages. So that was our job and we started 11 out doing exactly what the Wall Street firms were 12 doing, which is taking a position in the loans, 13 buying the loans, waiting until we had enough to 14 aggregate into a REMIC, going to a rating agency, 15 having them all rated, Fannie Mae would wrap through 16 BBB and either buy those securities ourselves or sell 17 them to a third party and we would also sell the B 18 pieces. 19 We really only did it to provide an extra 20 service to our DUS lenders really as more of a -- as 21 trying to be good, you know, just to provide 22 basically another outlet for them in case they needed 23 it. It's not something that they would primarily 24 choose to do, nor would we primarily choose to do, 25 but it was an added service on top of our flagship March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 16 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002358 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 11 of 29 00017 1 product of DUS. 2 Q. When you say that it is just an added 3 service and is not something that you would choose to 4 do -- and I want to make sure that I'm understanding 5 this. And I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. 6 Do not hesitate to correct me if I 7 characterize your testimony in any way that is not 8 correct. When you say it's not something that Fannie 9 Mae would choose to do, was this a source of 10 significant revenue for Fannie Mae to perform these 11. securitizations? 12 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection, form. 13 THE WITNESS: No, it wasn't. i4 BY MR. WISER: 15 Q. What sort of volume are you talking about 16 in terms of performing these securitizations on an 17 annual basis once the program gets started? 18 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection, form. 19 THE WITNESS: You mean how many mortgages? 20 BY MR. WISER: 21 Q. How many mortgages and the unpaid 22 principal balance. 23 A. It varied, but in terms of a percentage of 24 our volume, it was, you know, minuscule. 25 Q. And Ican appreciate that because of March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 17 _ CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002359 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page iz of 29 00018 1 understanding what Fannie Mae's principal line is 2 but, at the same time, can you give me something that 3 is not expressed in terms of its relationship to the 4 principal business but rather a dollar figure? What 5 was the typical unpaid principal balance of loans 6 that were securitized in 1998, approximately? 7 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection to form. 8 THE WITNESS: It could be - I don't 9 remember the exact amounts but 70 million to maybe 10 150 million compared to total volume in that given 11 year of maybe 8 to 10 billion. 12 BY MR. WISER: 13. Q. That would have gone through the DUS 14 program? 15 A. No. The 70 to 150 million would have been 16 what would have gone through aggregation on this 17 nonrecourse basis versus 8 to 10 billion in annual 18 volume. 19 QQ. And I asked you just because it was the 20 first year that came into my head for 1998. Has that 21 increased since 1998? 22 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection to form. 23 THE WITNESS: No. 24 BY MR. WISER: 25 Q. Has it stayed approximately the same? March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 18 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002360 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-2 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 13 of 29 00019 1 A. And less at times. 2 Q. We'll get back to that. You started, I 3 believe you said, as the director of aggregation? 4 A. Ub-huh. 5 Q. And what happened -- I mean, what was 6 your -- give me how you have progressed through 7 various positions at Fannie Mae since that time. 8 A. I've worked for Richard Lawch the whole 9 time I've been at Fannie Mae. Richard has also 10 expanded his responsibilities over time and as he's 11 expanded, I've taken on some of his responsibilities. 12 I was running aggregation — I still actually do run 13 aggregation although it's part of a team which I 14 manage. 15 I expanded into managing pool purchases 16 from depositories and insurance companies, I helped 17 create another channel, our MFLEX lenders, which is 18 basically just instead of buying pools at one 19 particular point in time from a depository, we would 20 buy loan by loan from depositories using risk 21 sharing. And I've more recently gotten involved with 22 product development and customer management 23 responsibilities in the DUS world as well. 24 Q. When you say product development, what 25 does that include? March 25, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 19 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002361 Case 1:05-cv-01403-JDB Document3a-G Filed OB/e1/2007 Page 14 of 2g 00239 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI | 3. SOUTHERN DIVISION 4 ane ceeneeeeeees x 5 CAM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., : . 6 Plaintiff, : Case No. 7 vs. =: 1:0lev314BrR 8 GENERAL STAR NATIONAL INSURANCE : - 9 COMPANY; GENERAL STAR INDEMNITY : 10 COMPANY, GENERAL STAR MANAGEMENT: 11 COMPANY, GENERAL RE CORPORATION: 12 GENERAL REINSURANCE CORPORATION:: 13 CRUMP INSURANCE SERVICES OF: 14 MEMPHIS, INC.; CRAIG OTT; 15 INDIVIDUALLY AND IN HIS © 16 REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY AS VICE: 17 PRESIDENT OF GENERAL STAR _18 MANAGEMENT COMPANY 19 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE 20 ASSOCIATION (FANNIE MAB), 21 Defendants. 22 -------- eee eee x 23° Washington, D.C. 24 Wednesday, March 26, 2003 25 March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher | Page 239 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002581 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-2 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 15 of 29 00240 . 1. Continued Videotaped Deposition of: 2 GRACE HUEBSCHER - 3 the witness, called for examination by counsel 4 for the Plaintiff, pursuant to notice and | 5 agreement, commencing at 9:20 a.m., at the Four 6 Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 7 before Virlana Kardash, RPR, CSR, a Notary Public 8 in and for the District of Columbia, when were 9 present on behalf of the respective parties: 10 11 APPEARANCES: 12 | 13 On behalf of the Plaintiff: 14 N. WISER, Esquire 15 BYRD & WISER 16 145 Main Street 17. Biloxi, Mississippi 39530 18 228-432-8123 19 | 20 On behalf of the Defendant Fannie Mae: 21 G. WIMBERLY, JR., Esquire 22 McGLINCHEY STAFFORD 23 643 Magazine Street | 24 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 25 504-586-1200 March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 240 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002582 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-G Filed O6/21/2007 Page 16 of 2g 00448 1 Or had there been meetings prior to this 2 time? 3 A I believe there were other meetings. 4 Q When did those meetings start? 5 A They could have been over probably a _ 6 couple of months before this because Renee is the 7 boss of, you know, the big boss of the division 8 that would have written this business and was ~ 9 coming in to do last-minute due diligence. 10 Q That is Renee Henderson that's 11 referenced in the first paragraph? 12 A Yes. 13. Q Whois Gavin? 14 A Gavin Wellington works for Walter. 15 Bauman and provides the equivalent pricing and 16 analytics that Rick and Walter, who have been 17 referred to in the past, are providing now in 18 aggregation. 19 Q They're the number crunchers? 20 A Yes. | 21 Q Gotyou. And I believe the question! 22 was in the process of asking before I sidetracked 23 myself is is it your testimony that the reason 24 that it took approximately eight to ten months ‘25 after Craig Ott's original proposal was finding March 26, 2003 CAM of FM-Huebscher —S—sPage 448 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002790 Case 105-¢v-01463-JDB Document 33-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 17 of 29 00449 . | 1 someone that was willing to write this kind of 2 insurance? 3 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection. Form. 4 | THE WITNESS: ] think that's one 5 reason. In addition, there really hasn't been a 6 compelling need either on our part, that really 7 aggregation has not produced the kind of volume -- 8 hasn't really produced significant volume ever. _ 9 It's just not a mainstream product for us. 10 BY MR. WISER: | 11 Q Whyisthat? 12 A AsI mentioned in prior testimony, 13 Fannie Mae's flagship product DUS, Delegated 14 Underwriting and Servicing, and its business model 15 in general is more reliant on seller recourse than 16 it is on third-party recourse partly -- mostly 17 because we like our selling entities, our seller 18 servicers, to have what we call "skin of the — 19 game." 20 So it's our preference to do it that way. 21 If our programs are all delegated and the 22 individuals that are selling and servicing for us 23 are doing the underwriting and credit-risk 24 analysis for us on our behalf, we would like them 25 to have a stake in the game. March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 449 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002791 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document32-2 Filed Q6/e1/2007 Page 18 of 29 00461 1 a matter of best evidence, but you didn't ask me 2 to bring it today. . 3 MR. WISER: [understand that. And Im 4 not suggesting that 1 did. 3 MR. WIMBERLY: It's available to you, 6 Mr. Wiser. 7 _ MR. WISER: I would like to get that 8 back. 9 MR. WIMBERLY: I assure you we'll take 10 care of it. | 11 MR. WISER: And the reason I was 12 mentioning it now is that I did go back and look, 13 andin looking at the documents that CAM has 14 produced, this is all we received. It was just 15 this one page. 16 Therefore, I was going to check and make 17 sure. T've been advised that this is all that was 18 in the envelope. So while there may be more to 19 this document than 9692, that's all that we've 20 got. And everything that was produced to you was 21 all that we received. | 22 MR. WIMBERLY: So noted. 23 BY MR. WISER: 24 Q Ms. Huebscher, have you seen this 25 e-mail before? March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 461 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002803 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 19 of 29 00462 1 A Yes. 2 Q Do you recall the substance of the 3 communications that were contained in the e-mail? 4 A Yes. | ‘§ Q > What's this about? 6 A This is Marialice approached Rhoda and 7 said that she’s had some conversations with some _ 8 of the DUS community about reinsuring their DUS 9 risk, and that's basically, I think, the nature of 10 it. 11 Q. And what was the response to Fannie Mae 12 upon receipt of this information from . 14 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection. Form. 15. THE WITNESS: Did you say what was the 16 response by Fannie Mae? | 17. © BY MR. WISER: 18 Q Yes. 19 A As you can see from my e-mail reply, 20 I'm asking Richard for advice. At this point in 21 time, I'm not really that involved with DUS. In 22 fact, | was just beginning to be more involved -- 23 well, no -- it's 2002 -- yes. 24 So I wasn't really that involved with DUS. 25 Sol'm asking him is this something that we want March 26, 2003 CAM of FM-Huebscher Page 462 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002804 Case 1 05-cv-01463-JDB Document 33-3 Ried 06/21/2007 Page 20 of 29 00463 . 1 topursue. And actually, I was surprised that 2 Richard wanted to pursue it in light of what I had 3 just said in my previous testimony, which is we 4 like the DUS lenders to have risk, to have at | 5 risk, and wouldn't necessarily want them to rely 6 on third party to reinsurance. 7 | But as you see, what Richard has said back 8 here, we also were in the process of receiving and 9 finalizing what were going to be Fannie Mae's 10 risk-based capital guidelines for OFHEO, 11 O-F-H-E-O. And that's Fannie Mae's regulator. 12 And so I think he was trying to keep all of 13 his options open, and I think -- and then you see 14 my reply there. | 15 Q_ Isee that, in forwarding this message 16 on to Richard Lawch, you comment that, "My gut is 17 no." 18 A Yes. My gut is no based on what I just 19 said; I was really surprised that we would 20 consider that from a business perspective. That . 21 wasn't really consistent with what I understood 22 our business model to be. 23 QQ Sothe fact that you said, "Do we want 24 to pursue with her" was not really a reference to 25 Marialice Williams but, rather, was directed as to March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 463 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002805 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document33-4 Filed Qb/21/2007 Page 21 of 29 00464 . 1 the subject matter itself; is that correct? 2 <A Pretty much. 3 Q. What was Richard's response? 4 A Tjust explained that. 5 Q Would you give that to me again. 6 A Sure. "If OFHEO comes back with bad 7 RBC rules, we may be interested. Are these 8 different players than Craig is showing us?" 9 Q And RBC rules would be the risk-based 10 capital? | | il A Yes. 12 Q What is it about bad RBC rules that 13 might have interested? | 14. A As! mentioned in my testimony just 15 previous to this is that we were in the midst of 16 receiving revised guidelines from our regulator | 17 OFHEO, and we weren't certain how they were going - 18 to view the DUS entities. 19 Many of our DUS entities are unrated 20 entities; they don't have official long-term debt 21 rating. So we were uncertain of what kind of 22 treatment they would have. So what I think - 93 Richard must have been jumping to as a possibility 24 is if, in fact, there's un— like you know, say 25 they penalize us for more capital, would we be March 26, 2003 CAM of FM-Huebscher _ Page 464 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002806 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document32- Filed Q6/e1/2007 Page 22 of 29 00465 1 better off, through some kind of reinsurance of 2 their risk, getting a higher rated counterparty so 3 we'd have to post less capital against that 4 business. ‘S| Q > Why do you respond that, "If we want to _ 6 engage Craig on the project, it might be a better 7 choice"? 8 MR. WIMBERLY: Objection. 9 Mischaracterization. Misleading. 10 THE WITNESS: This is, again, a very -- 11 there's thousands of things happening in our 12 business. This is probably one of those things 13 that's a real quick e-mail exchange between 14. Richard and J and is so tangential to the business 15 athand. | | 16 But probably what I'm saying - keep inmind 17 this is May, 2001. You know, we had successful 18 Gen Star transactions with Craig. Craig has now 19 brought us, you know, Great American. We've had 20 success with him. . 21 So is he potentially more proven to help out 22 in this area? We did not pursue it, by the way. 23 And we did not pursue it with Marialice. 24 BY MR. WISER: 25 Q. Why if the DUS lender had approached March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher | Page 465 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002807 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Documeni3c-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 23 of 29 00466 a — 1 Marialice, would you consider going to someone 2 else besides Marialice Williams? 3 A I think at the end of the day we 4 actually had some DUS lenders approach us and - § said, "Are you okay with us talking to Marialice?" 6 And we said, "Sure." | 7 Q Who were those DUS lenders? | 8 A I think Lend Lease was one of those. 9 Q. Okay. Any others? 10 A I don't remember the other names. So | 11 we didn't prohibit it from happening. | 12 QQ. There is a reference here, in the very 13 top, in your last response there, "Maybe you and I 14 can discuss or put on agenda for our team's weekly 15 strategy meeting"? 16 <A Uh-huh. 17 Q What is the team’s weekly strategy 18 meeting? | 19 A It was Richard's direct reports at the 20 time, those individuals that were reportedly 21 directly to Richard Lawch. 22 Q Was that a formal meeting that, - 23 theoretically, took place each week? 24 A Theoretically took place each week. 25 Q Did it, in fact, take place each week? March 26, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher - Page 466 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002808 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 24 of 29 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT | SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI 2 SOUTHERN DIVISION da. 3 : CAM FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., 4 : Plaintiff, 3 : Case No. ¥v. ~ t 1:01cev314BrR GENERAL STAR NATIONAL INSURANCE : 7 COMPANY; GENERAL STAR INDEMNITY : _ COMPANY; GENERAL STAR MANAGEMENT : _ § COMPANY, GENERAL RE CORPORATION; : _ CRUMP INSURANCE SERVICES OF — : 9 MEMPHIS, INC.; CRAIG OTT, : INDIVIDUALLY ANDINHIS — : 10 REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY AS VICE : PRESIDENT OF GENERAL STAR : 11 MANAGEMENT COMPANY; FEDERAL 12 NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 13 (FANNIE MAE), 14 15 Defendants. 16 17 -+-------- eer ree x 18 ‘Washington, D.C. | . 19 "Thursday, March 27, 2003 20 The continued deposition of GRACE HUEBSCHER, 21 called for examination by counsel for Plaintiff in - 22 the above-entitled matter, pursuant to notice, at 23 the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, 24 N.W., Washington, D.C., Room 478, convened at 9:26 25 am., before Sandy Medford Nelson, a notary public March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 502 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002843 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-4 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 25 of 29 00503 Oo CO st BD mH Bh WD bo Mob N RR ND m A oS &£§ 5 © we DAA ERE BE TS March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher | Page 503 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002844 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document 33-3 00504 1 APPEARANCES: ; On behalf of the Plaintiff: 2 NICHOLAS VAN WISER, ESQ. Byrd & Wiser | 3 Metro Plaza One 8401 Colesville Road, Suite 501 - 4 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 495-3131 5 On behalf of the Defendant Fannie Mae: GERALD E. WIMBERLY, JR., ESQ. 6 WILLIAM H. LEACH, ESQ. McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC 7 643 Magazine Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 8 (504) 586-1200 | 9 JONATHAN L. GRIFFITH, ESQ. 10 Associate General Counsel li Fannie Mae 12 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. 13 Washington, D.C. 20016-2892 14 (504) 586-1200 | 15 On behalf of the General Star Defendants: 16 WILSON CARROLL, ESQ. . 17 Phelps Dunbar, LLP. 18 SkyTel Centre, Suite 500 19 200 South Lamar Street 20 Post Office Box 23066 21 Jackson, Mississippi 39225-3066 22. (504) 586-1200 | 23 ALSO PRESENT: 24 JONATHON PERRY, Videographer 25 BOB JONES Filed 06/21/2007 March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 26 of 29 Page 504 CONFIDENTIAL, FNMA.MBW.002845 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document3a-2 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 27 of 29 00505 a 1 CONTENTS 2 EXAMINATION BY COUNSEL FOR 3 WITNESS PLAINTIFF DEFENDANTS 4 GRACEHUEBSCHER 506,577 571 5 EXHIBITS 6 HUEBSCHER DEPOSITION EXHIBITS MARKED 7 No. 423 - Spreadsheet 519 8 No.424-Email 541 9 No. 425 - Document . 550 10 | TH 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 505 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002846 Case 1:05-cv-01463-JDB Document32-2 Filed Q6/e1/2007 Page 2@ of 29 00519 . . ol (Deposition Exhibit No. 423 marked for identification.) MR. WISER: Did y'all get one? 2 3 4 BY MR. WISER: 5 Q Okay. And I'm just going to ask you about 6 the first page. | 7 A. Okay. Are we done with this one? 8 QI don't know yet. We may not be. 9 A Okay. — | 10 Q = Can you tell me--I'm sorry. Have you had 11 achance to look at it? © 12 <A Well, I generally know what this is. 13. Q Okay. Can you tell me generally what this 14 is? | | 15. A AsI mentioned previously when--Fannie Mae 16 has a lot of different tools by which it can manage 17 first loss risk, and not only portfolios. It buys 18 from lenders and flow, but aggregation as well. 19 So, what this is is a comparison of the cost of 20 various executions against us because one of the - 21 things that, you know, DUS, is—because of the fact 22 that you have seller risk sharing and that skin in ' 23 the game, as I discussed before-- . | 24 Q Yes. 25 A_ --we believe that the performance under March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher Page 519 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002860 . Case 1:05-cv-O1483-JDB Document3a-3 Filed 06/21/2007 Page 29 of 29 00520 1 DUS warrants an all-in pricing to the market that's 2 better and lower than aggregation. So, we try to 3 manage the pricing on those two executions to 4 ensure that that relationship takes place. So, 5 that's why DUS is here. 6 Q Okay. it's kind of the benchmark, would 7 you say? | . 8 A Idon't know if that's fair to say. 1 9 mean, the whole competitive marketplace. 10 MR. LEACH: I'm going to just object to 11 the document you've marked as an exhibit to the 12 extent I think she's testifying as to the first 13 page, but it attaches several seemingly separate 14 pieces of correspondence. I just want the record 15 to be clear that she's testifying as to the first 16 page. I don't know whether you intend to 17 continue--to include ail of the other pages in the 18 exhibit. That's your decision, but they are, 19 apparently, separate documents. 20 MR. WISER: I understand. I'd like to . 21 have them included in the exhibit, but I don't 22 intend to ask her any questions about anything 23 other than the first page at this point. 24 MR. LEACH: Okay, Mr. Wiser. 25 MR. WISER: But your objection is noted. March 27, 2003 CAM of FM - Huebscher _ Page 520 CONFIDENTIAL FNMA.MBW.002861
