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Fannie, Freddie investors lose suits over profits taken by U.S.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors lost their legal challenges to a change to the mortgage giants 2008 bailouts that sent their profits to the U.S. Treasury.

By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg, Jody Shenn, Bloomberg, Clea Benson, Bloomberg | Updated on October 01, 2014
The Fannie Mae building in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

(Bloomberg) — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors lost their legal challenges to a change to the mortgage giants’ 2008 bailouts that sent their profits to the U.S. Treasury.

The lawsuits, among the first of almost 20 related cases to be decided, were filed by investors including Bruce Berkowitz, the head of Fairholme Capital Management LLC, who was named Morningstar Inc.’s domestic stock manager of the decade for the 2000s, and billionaire hedge-fund manager Richard Perry’s Perry Capital LLC.

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