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MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 08:13 PM Jan 2014

Jamie Dimon gets a fucking RAISE

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is getting a 74 percent pay raise despite the bank paying out about $20 billion last year to settle several legal and regulatory issues, the company announced on Friday.
His total pay package for 2013, approved by the bank’s board of directors, is $20 million.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/jamie-dimon-gets-a-big-raise-102570.html#ixzz2rMf050XY


On edit: This is what a tapeworm does when the banking industry never gets back to that regulation you thought it finally had after the great depression:
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VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
1. 20 million....geez...you could run a small country on that budget!
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 08:14 PM
Jan 2014

or buy a few politicians in a large one...

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
5. As it has been said in the financial community … it's apparently worth it!
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 08:23 PM
Jan 2014

The problem raised by the Dimon case isn't managerial so much as regulatory. Dimon's continuing role is the harvest of a disciplinary system that punishes white-collar crime by exacting corporate fines, not personal responsibility.

So, apparently any chief executive with a moral compass would have stepped down, but not he…. He's responsibility for JPMorgan's record and our brave members of congress are owned parlor whores of this allegiance.

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