Bankster bitten zur Kasse
Rechtzeitig zur anstehenden Abstimmung im Repräsentantenhaus über ein Gesetz eine Obergrenze für Bonuszahlungen von Bankmanager einzuführen, veröffentlichte New Yorks Generalstaatsanwalt Andrew Cuomo am 30. Juli eine Untersuchung von neun Banken, die zum einen in 2008 staatliche Leistungen aus dem Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bezogen haben, zum anderen aber auch ihre Manager mit Bonuszahlungen ausstatteten.
Das Gesetz passierte am 31. 7. laut Bloomberg mit 237 Ja-Stimmen zu 185 Nein-Stimmen den Kongress, steht aber noch im Senat zur Abstimmung an und muss von Barack Obama noch unterzeichnet werden.
Cuomo sieht die gezahlten Boni losgelöst von der Unternehmensperformance. Hilfen von 175 Mrd. US-Dollar standen Boni von 32,6 Mrd. US-Dollar gegenüber.
Zwei Firmen, Citigroup und Merrill Lynch, generierten erhebliche Verluste von jeweils 27 Milliarden US-Dollar, nichtsdestotrotz wurden Boni ausgezahlt. Im Fall von Citigroup waren es 5,33 Mrd. und im Fall von Merrill Lynch 3,6 Mrd..
Im Bericht heißt es weiter:
For three other firms – Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP. Morgan Chase – 2008 bonus payments were substantially greater than the banks’ net income. Goldman earned $2.3 billion, paid out $4.8 billion in bonuses, and received $10 billion in TARP funding. Morgan Stanley earned $1.7 billion, paid $4.475 billion in bonuses, and received $10 billion in TARP funding. JP. Morgan Chase earned $5.6 billion, paid $8.69 bil1ion in bonuses, and received $25 billion in TARP funding. Combined, these three firms earned $9.6 billion, paid bonuses of nearly $18 billion, and received TARP taxpayer funds worth $45 bil1ion. Appendices A and B, attached hereto, provide further information on the 2008 earnings, bonus pools, and TARP funding for the nine original TARP recipients. We note that some of the nine recipients maintain that they did not request or desire TARP funding.
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