JPMorgan Reportedly Pushing FDIC To Cover Some WaMu Expenses

JPMorgan May Ask FDIC To Cover Some WaMu Expenses

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is putting federal regulators on notice that it may go after the very funds it used to buy Washington Mutual Inc.'s banking assets--and then some.

In a series of previously undisclosed letters sent to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the nation's second-largest bank by assets warned it could seek billions in legal protection from the FDIC receivership that liquidated the Seattle-based thrift two years ago, people familiar with the situation said.

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