content: List of 2008 banking executives who took multimillion dollar bonuses from taxpayer bailout money https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/wall-street-bailout-executive-compensation/ Some examples: Lloyd Blankfein, president and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, took home nearly $54 million in compensation last year. The company's top five executives received a total of $242 million. John A. Thain, chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, topped all corporate bank bosses with $83 million in earnings last year.  Bob Diamond, the president and head of investment banking at Barclays whose base salary was £250,000, was paid £18m after bonuses and options were taken into account. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bankers-16316bn-bonus-bonanza-965445.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/16b-of-bank-bailout-went-to-execs/