"If you feel sorry for these guys and want to help increase their bonuses next year, just work harder so you can pay more tax," suggested cg1234.
The Credit Suisse traders are expected to be accused of overvaluing the positions on their books in order to increase their bonuses from the bank, this person said.
"It is pretty out of touch for the Council to increase their bonuses during such tough fiscal times," said Edward Skyler, the mayor's press secretary, returning an accusation frequently made against his boss.
There are moments that every veteran Wall Streeter might recognize and will trouble readers — like when bankers increase their bonuses by advising clients to buy the most-profitable products and then grumble when those payouts aren't big enough.
Mr. Raines and the two others — J. Timothy Howard, the former chief financial officer, and Leanne G. Spencer, a former controller — were accused of engineering a six-year accounting fraud intended to inflate the reported earnings of the company and thus increase their bonuses.
And our economic system cannot weather constant devastation wrought upon it by out of control bankers sucking every bit of life out of it to increase their bonuses.
When the Cardinals increased their bonus offer to $60,000, he signed.
End of year payments are limited to 1.9 per cent of the total DWP paybill" Figures obtained through Parliamentary Questions revealed that other government departments have increased their bonuses from the previous year.
Their first order of business after being elected in 2002 was a pay raise, and there is legislation pending that would increase their exit bonuses by thousands of dollars.
Federal prosecutors are expected to charge four former Credit Suisse brokers with criminal fraud for misleading investors by inflating the value of subprime mortgage derivatives to increase their own bonuses, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Federal prosecutors contend they deployed the scheme to increase their year-end bonuses.
