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December 15, 2009

Bailed-Out Execs’ Salaries Averaged $28.9M Before Meltdown
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The meeting was held as new figures showed CEOs of the top ten failed or
bailed-out Wall Street firms were paid an average $28.9 million in the
years leading up to the nation’s financial meltdown. According to Public
Citizen, the executives’ average pay this decade amounts to 575 times
the median income for US families.



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