Activist Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP filed its second lawsuit in two days against the U.S. government over bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac，court documents show.
法庭文件顯示，激進投資者比爾·艾克曼的潘興廣場資本管理公司就房利美和房地美的政府救助案在兩天之內(nèi)對美國政府提起第二次訴訟。(路透社)
In Friday’s complaint with the U.S. District Court，Pershing Square alleged that the Department of the Treasury illegally seized tens of billions of dollars in Fannie and Freddie profits. In the second lawsuit，Pershing suggests the mortgage companies’dividends being paid to the Treasury should be shared among other common shareholders.
在15日向美國地方法院提交的訴狀中，潘興廣場宣稱美國財政部非法占有房利美和房地美數(shù)百億美元經(jīng)營利潤。在第二份訴訟中，潘興廣場指出，這兩家住房抵押貸款機構(gòu)向財政部上繳的股利應(yīng)由其他普通股東共享。(路透社)
Pershing Square’s suit，filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington，D.C.，also names as a defendant the Federal Housing Finance Agency，the regulatory agency that controls Fannie and Freddie.
潘興廣場15日向美國華盛頓地區(qū)法院提起的這份訴訟也將房利美和房地美的監(jiān)管機構(gòu)美國聯(lián)邦住房金融局列為被告。(《華爾街日報》)
Pershing Square said in the complaint that it was told the Fannie and Freddie stockholders no longer have fundamental shareholders rights. Federal Housing Finance Agency(FHFA)，denied “written demands by Pershing Square to the companies‘boards of directors for a books and records inspection”，according to the complaint.
潘興廣場在訴狀中稱，其被告知房利美和房地美的股東不再享有基本股東權(quán)利。根據(jù)訴狀顯示，美國聯(lián)邦住房金融局拒絕“潘興廣場以書面形式向兩房董事會提出的檢查賬目紀錄的請求”。(路透社)
Pershing Square is the biggest holder of Fannie and Freddie’s common stock，with about 10 per cent of each，but its litigation is filed jointly with three small shareholders—a retired nurse，a former social worker and a scientist.
潘興廣場是房利美和房地美最大股東，各擁有兩家公司約10%的普通股。不過此次訴訟由其與三名小股東共同提起，包括一名退休護士、一名前社會服務(wù)人員和一名科學(xué)家。(《金融時報》)
In a complaint filed on Thursday with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington，D.C.，Pershing accused the government of violating the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by taking private property for public use without just compensation.
此前，在14日向美國華盛頓聯(lián)邦索賠法院提起的訴訟中，潘興廣場指控美國政府將私人財產(chǎn)充作公用且未提供合理補償，侵犯了美國憲法修正案第五條的規(guī)定。(路透社)
Though the lawsuits raise different legal theories and are in different courts，they are both designed to enable Ackman to recoup sums for the depressed value of his Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares.
盡管這兩次訴訟運用了不同法律理論且向不同法院提起，但都旨在使艾克曼收回部分其在房利美和房地美持股中被壓低的價值。(路透社)
Fannie and Freddie collapsed in 2008 under the weight of toxic mortgage investments，but the government put them into conservatorship and their shares and preferred stock kept trading. Hedge funds invested years later when it looked as if the companies would return to profit，but the Treasury changed the terms of the bailout in 2012 to divert those profits to the taxpayer.
在不良抵押貸款投資的重壓下，房利美和房地美于2008年瀕臨破產(chǎn)。美國政府通過救助將兩房置于監(jiān)護之下，兩家公司的普通股和優(yōu)先股也繼續(xù)保持交易。因兩家公司看似能重返盈利道路，一些基金公司在幾年后對兩房進行投資。然而，美國財政部在2012年修改了救助條款，將兩房利潤轉(zhuǎn)移給納稅人。(《金融時報》)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paid fixed dividends of 10 percent on the government’s stock until the Treasury amended the terms of the bailout to take all their earnings. The agreements and dividend payments to the Treasury make it impossible for stockholders to realize future value of their ownership interest in the entities，Pershing Square said in its complaint.
此前，房利美和房地美原本對政府持有股票支付10%的固定股利，直到財政部修改救助條款，改為沒收兩房所有盈利。潘興廣場在訴狀中稱，政府協(xié)議及向財政部上繳所有股利使得股東們無法對其持有資產(chǎn)的所有權(quán)權(quán)益兌現(xiàn)未來價值。(彭博社)
Pershing Square’s complaint is at least the 20th lawsuit challenging the government’s decision to divert Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to the Treasury.
潘興廣場此次訴訟是其針對美國政府將房利美和房地美利潤轉(zhuǎn)交給財政部的決定提出的至少第20次訴訟。(彭博社)
In a presentation of his ideas on the future of Fannie and Freddie earlier this year，Mr Ackman said he hoped to be a partner to the US government in reforming housing finance and predicted that the Treasury would make more money returning the companies to the private sector than by winding them down.
在今年早些時候的一次演講中，艾克曼曾表達對房利美和房地美未來規(guī)劃的想法。他表示希望成為美國政府在改革住房金融方面的合作伙伴。他還預(yù)測，財政部若將兩房放歸私人領(lǐng)域，將比逐漸取消兩房獲利更多。(《金融時報》)
