Wall Street To Hold Telethon for Goldman CEO
Well, I’ve done it. I’ve taken down Wall Street with one swift stroke of the e-pen.
Reacting swiftly and with the compassion it is so often accused of lacking, Wall Street’s top CEO’s and bankers rallied to the aid Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein, announcing a weekend fundraising telethon for the industry trailblazer in the aftermath of his devastating 2009 bonus.
Just hours after his firm announced that Blankfein would be receiving just a $9 million bonus, housed in 58,000 shares of the banks’ ever-climbing stock, other top bankers on Wall Street released a statement urging every American to “give what they can” to help Blankfein “weather this recession.”
“It’s almost as if he’s taking a bullet for everyone else,” said Mark Borges, a principal with Compensia Inc., a Northern California compensation consulting firm.***
***This quote was actually uttered by a real “human”
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