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rnicklaus

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WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
« on: September 26, 2008, 01:49:28 PM »

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428641,00.html

Nice work — if you can get fired from it.

That's just what one Alan H. Fishman might have thought when he woke up Friday morning.

Fishman was the new chief executive officer for Washingon Mutual — WaMu — the nation's largest savings and loan, which was taken over Thursday night by federal bank regulators and quickly dumped in a fire sale to JPMorgan Chase for the Wal-Mart-like price of $1.9 billion.

But don't cry for Fishman, who reportedly was sky-high — literally — last night, on a flight from New York to Seattle, when WaMu collapsed. Even though he's only been on the job for less than three weeks, he's bailing out with parachute worth close to $20 million, according to an executive compensation analysis conducted for the New York Times by James F. Reda Associates.

That's right, $20 million for 17 days on the job ... and his company failed.

Fishman, who formerly was chairman of Meridian Capital Group, apparently was much coveted by WaMu, which was counting on him to lead the failing thrift out of mortgage troubles that pushed the bank to a $3.3 billion second-quarter loss.


According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, WaMu threw a $7.5 million bonus at Fishman when it hired him on Sept. 8, and guaranteed him an immediate cash severence of $11.6 million — both of which he gets to keep.

He also was eligible for annual bonuses of up to 365 percent of his annual base pay — set at $1 million — to go with millions of shares of company stock.

Fishman does lose out on a big bonus that would have kicked in had he remained on the job through 2009.

Documents show WaMu was going to pay their new boss $8 million to simply not screw up and get fired — all negotiated as the Seattle-based banking giant's loses climbed to an estimated $20 billion.
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Re: WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2008, 02:52:37 PM »



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Re: WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2008, 11:27:22 AM »

rnicklaus wrote on Fri, 26 September 2008 10:49

Nice work — if you can get fired from it.

Kinda like the record bidness in the 90's, huh Randy?

Someone asked me last night how things were going in music. My answer was "You know those guys that have destroyed our economy?"

And he got it and said "They started with music?"

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Re: WaMu Gives New CEO Mega Payout as Bank Fails
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2008, 01:34:47 PM »

This is exactly why we shouldn't kick in more money for this--a few lucky gamblers will walk away with tons of money EVEN AS companies sink.
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