Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Did Citigroup CEO lie to Congress about his compensation?

Well, the video didn't help the Citi CEO..The real question is how many bank CEO who testified lie to Congress.

Thinkprogress:

As ThinkProgress noted, in February, bailed-out Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit told a House committee that he received only $1 million in salary and “no bonus” in 2008:

PANDIT: My compensation was for the year 2008 was my salary, which was a million dollars. I received no bonus. And as I stated earlier, I plan to take a dollar per year salary and no bonus until we return to profitability.

But Reuters reports today that Citigroup awarded Pandit “
$10.82 million of compensation in 2008,” despite the bank accepting $45 billion in TARP funds. The package included a “$958,333 salary, $9.84 million of stock and option awards and $16,193 of other compensation,” according to an SEC filing. As of February, Citigroup still owned or was leasing a private jet.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

Yes he lied but so did many others. The question is what is going to be done about it.