Monday, April 19, 2010

Just How Sorry Are They?

 Measuring Wall Street Apologetics

 The parade of bankers called to account for the financial crisis continued last week when Kerry K. Killinger, head of Washington Mutual, the largest bank ever to fail, apologized, sort of, as have many before him. But he also said that his firm “should have been given a chance.” Here are some of those mea culpa moments.

Read their quotes in today's New York Times

Angelo R. Mozilo
Co-founder, former chairman and chief executive, Countrywide Financial

TOTAL COMPENSATION $530.9 million.

Kenneth D. Lewis
Former chairman and chief executive, Bank of America

TOTAL COMPENSATION $251.5 million.

Kerry K. Killinger
Former chief executive, Washington Mutual

TOTAL COMPENSATION $95.7 million

E. Stanley O’Neal
Former chairman and chief executive, Merrill Lynch

TOTAL COMPENSATION $201.9 million.
 
Lloyd C. Blankfein
Chairman and chief executive, Goldman Sachs

TOTAL COMPENSATION $391.2 million

Richard S. Fuld
Former chairman and chief executive, Lehman Brothers

TOTAL COMPENSATION $167.5 million.

Charles O. Prince III
Former chairman and chief executive, Citigroup

TOTAL COMPENSATION $132.7 million. 

James E. Cayne
Former chairman, Bear Stearns

TOTAL COMPENSATION $424.3 million.

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