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Chrysler, Merrill CEOs Passed Houses to Wives, Too

Feb 9, 2009 1:42 PM CST

Chrysler, Merrill CEOs Passed Houses to Wives, Too

Fuld not the only one hiding assets

(Newser) - Dick Fuld’s wife isn’t the only one getting a discount mansion. Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli and ex-Merrill Lynch honcho Stanley O’Neal have followed Fuld’s lead, handing their multimillion-dollar homes to their spouses, according to property records obtained by the New York Post. Such deed transfers are...

Check Out Mansions
of Bigwig Bankers

Dec 18, 2008 7:10 PM CST

Check Out Mansions of Bigwig Bankers

(Newser) - It's not been the best of years for the titans of Wall Street: a few federal bailouts, a housing collapse, and now a Ponzi scheme of mind-boggling proportions can do that. "Where did all that money go?" wonders the website wowOwow.com. And it has a partial answer: Straight...

Execs Were Paid $3B to Lay Credit Crisis Foundation

ANALYSIS

Sep 26, 2008 5:45 PM CDT

Execs Were Paid $3B to Lay Credit Crisis Foundation

Wall Street chieftains were well rewarded for risks they took in 2003-07

(Newser) - More than $3 billion was paid to the chief executives of the five biggest financial firms on Wall Street in the run-up to the credit crisis, Bloomberg reports. While supervising bad mortgage-related credit bets that eventually brought the financial system to its knees, Merrill Lynch’s Stanley O’Neal took...

Subprime Lender CEOs Defend Exec Pay

Mar 7, 2008 3:50 PM CST

Subprime Lender CEOs Defend Exec Pay

Merrill, Citi and Countrywide honchos cashed in as companies foundered

(Newser) - Banking executives who took home huge paychecks even as the subprime mortgage crisis battered their companies appeared before Congress today to defend their actions. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee grilled them about their enormous pay packages as Republicans apologized to them and questioned the premise of the hearing, the...

House Hits High Bonuses
at Strapped Companies

Mar 7, 2008 7:53 AM CST

House Hits High Bonuses at Strapped Companies

Fat cats to face executive pay hearing

(Newser) - A House committee wants to know why the CEOs of three companies mired in the subprime crisis collected massive bonuses as their firms bled billions, AP reports. The targets include Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Countrywide, all of which posted stunning losses last year. Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo and the former...

Exxon Gives Markets a Boost

Oct 29, 2007 3:47 PM CDT

Exxon Gives Markets a Boost

Hopes for Fed rate cut, O'Neal ouster buoy stocks

(Newser) - Stocks rose again today as Exxon Mobil rode record crude prices to its greatest gains in 3 weeks, Bloomberg reports. The Dow was up 63.56 to 13,870.26, the Nasdaq 13.25 to 2,817.44, and the S&P 500 5.70 to 1,540.98. Continuing...

Embattled Merrill Chief Stepping Down

Oct 28, 2007 6:53 PM CDT

Embattled Merrill Chief Stepping Down

O'Neal will announce departure; Fink leading contender for CEO

(Newser) - Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal has decided to step down, the Wall Street Journal reports, after days of speculation about his likely ouster following $8 billion in writedowns for the bank, and reports that he had discussed a merger with Wachovia without board authorization. The list of potential successors...

Merrill Lynch Sizes Up Potential CEOs

Oct 26, 2007 4:49 PM CDT

Merrill Lynch Sizes Up Potential CEOs

With O'Neal headed for exit, list of possible successors grows

(Newser) - With Stan O'Neal all but ousted after an $8.4 billion writedown mostly on subprime loans and an overture to Wachovia, Merrill Lynch is on the hunt for a new chairman and CEO. Candidates include BlackRock's Larry Fink, NYSE Euronext's John Thain, and in-house contender Robert McCann, Reuters reports. Sources...