Freddie Mac (FRE) acting chief financial officer David Kellermann, found dead early Wednesday after an apparent suicide at his northern Virginia home, in recent weeks received about $800,000 in bonus payments from the company, the New York Times reported on its Web site, citing company officials and neighbors. Kellermann, who had been with the company for 16 years and its acting CFO since September, had hired a private security firm after reporters came to his house in Reston, Va., to ask about the bonus payment, according to his neighbors.

Full story at www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/23freddie.html?hp

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