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...according to the SEC complaint, Lewis and other Bank of America executives had full knowledge of Merrill's plans to pay out bonuses to top executives. In fact, prior to sending out the proxy statement, the complaint asserts, Bank of America had agreed to let Merrill pay out as much as $5.8 billion in year-end bonuses, a little over $2 billion more than Thain actually paid out. In settling the SEC complaint - paying the fine - Bank of America neither confirmed nor denied the charges...
...Investors, however, aren't inclined to stay neutral. "Lewis used the bonus issue to get rid of Thain," says Jonathan Finger, an institutional investor who owns shares in Bank of America and has been pushing for Lewis' ouster. "But this shows that Lewis knew about it all along...
...Even if Lewis holds on this his job, the hiring of Krawcheck underscores the fact that Bank of America has a growing honesty issue with shareholders. Krawcheck has a reputation on Wall Street as being Ms. Clean. Fortune magazine (TIME and Fortune share the same publisher) once dubbed Krawcheck the "last honest analyst" on Wall Street...
...settlement demonstrates the lack of regard Lewis and the former Bank of America board has for shareholders," says Finger. "They were not as open as they should have been...
...encouraged the buyer to pay only interest and not build equity in the house, or that would reset in 2 years and double their payments. These days, the typical homeowner facing foreclosure seems more likely to have simply lost a job—in a steel plant or a bank or as an auto-mechanic—and fallen behind on payments...