<h2><a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2305/">Fannie Mae executives bungled their stewardship of the federal  government’s massive foreclosure-prevention campaign, creating a  bureaucratic muddle characterized by “mismanagement and gross waste of  public funds,” according to a </a><a title="whistleblower lawsuit" href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6920-herron-lawsuit-against-fannie-mae.html" target="new">whistleblower lawsuit</a> by a former Fannie Mae executive and consultant.</h2>