WaMu also plans on cutting other jobs, including 2, 600 mortgage-related jobs and more than 500 corporate and support jobs.
Loan and subprime mortgage lending losses both look inevitable, too.
The bank's CEO and chairman, Kerry Killinger, has faced criticism for WaMu's recent losses; however, according to Bove, "This is the way this business functions. To say that Kerry Killinger did something terribly negative to make his company stand out from the rest of the pack — that is inappropriate."
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